Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d20294fa36dab0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.7 KB Created: 2012-12-11 17:01:31 Authoring application: pgvdttsdhcgam (via waymhnpjmjprfv)
MD5: 53e3ba8c0bb5c5e905be561e189e8711 SHA-1: 19ad5efcd83ef1cf532f9f07e1c605dc6309d06c SHA-256: 8d20294fa36dab0c175e2495f4981da26c9f3747466625792dacd45e6f81fcac
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated and appears to be part of an exploit for CVE-2010-0188, targeting Adobe Reader. The heuristic 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' identified a suspicious extracted JavaScript file ('xfa_metadata_stage_000.js') with script obfuscation indicators. This suggests the primary purpose of the PDF is to deliver and execute this malicious script, which likely downloads and runs a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
f5fada8101d0364117b2454492c05b64911df9d040cddf613d50212da6228859
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x12A2 10740 bytes
stream_011_off000041c0.bin
392d4f07be91edcc9359ef94bc01fc8fbd40fa048af13b58bb9eb28874772ed6
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x41C0 209 bytes
xfa_metadata_stage_000.js
8806ef6cc48e104bc3b6950bf217638d3607ca61e7e2e2730c66c485947ecfe0
deobfuscated-js XFA /Title hex-XOR decoded JavaScript (raw, key=vanrxtsLKSR) at offset 0x5353 4114 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 6 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).