Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 871e5dd9abddff89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2012-08-23 16:04:16
MD5: 8f38fe1b36d60eddbb828a9b8ae71eb6 SHA-1: 144966063965a4b6c7f2662133451aa303581c2b SHA-256: 871e5dd9abddff899d625ac7e81cf582ccd47618b05b60e0f488791784dd2679
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. Several other files were embedded within the PDF, suggesting a multi-stage attack.

Heuristics 6

  • 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 script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x20C 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
1c9de7a098e72dee3fd657fd039ee1706ea293cbe119179a0be7df54e49987f7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x44B 96 bytes
embedded_file_obj0005.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0x50E 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x5B7 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0017.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0x6C0 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
c3a6b7183d91d6eecd4452e77458e75af9d79af163959d570d181944f235a911
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x9C5 43798 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).