PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9b9563a3786e4617

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.1 KB Created: 2012-10-18 11:51:53 Authoring application: kkiiia=unescape(nehet.replace(/jjsjff/g, niittu.charAt(4

MD5: da722a954d4ab5327eae7800a25e0a25 SHA-1: 7884c38775d3cfdbd691afb039df355d247af546 SHA-256: 9b9563a3786e4617e3e45b5619506eaf7ad226b6e86073f6049a9794760d0ad7

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF image parsing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The PDF contains embedded files and uses an unescape() call, further indicating malicious intent. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of a known Adobe Reader vulnerability.

Heuristics 7

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.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0006.bin` `c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x257	130 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `426f6c30d7ff49521bbefeeac0845cd4dfcc4e390a97e07aa38390111844e451`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x4FD	195 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x60A	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0018.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x6B4	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0004.bin` `d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0x7BB	201 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `c80b75eed7dade55667b1f79b5339eaa0ad19163054c668cd3d4a577dab33e84`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xB16	35111 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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