Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 806bd1e1137912de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qHFdTlfA Authoring application: gfhersdd
MD5: 9d7634324200c114fe7574cc9a0fcec2 SHA-1: 02bfe777e513b10a2ea684ade599c137ed5ce76e SHA-256: 806bd1e1137912de5d6c18a13382eee1da4246319cb028177f76c79fb93d5437
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when a user opens a specially crafted PDF. The critical heuristic firing confirms the presence of this exploit. No document body or script content was available for further analysis.

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off000002e7.bin
ea92de5b170125bb9be3124ca21b4156cbc922c7d5ca31fab56d26bed89dec34
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7 59484 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).