PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9d96b7df70130777

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: %

MD5: c08c37f94be7f36af1e2418dc3e8f767 SHA-1: 7192e9a7937729a349ce5a0974f14882a6cfd15f SHA-256: 9d96b7df70130777fbed6e9c3bcc0ce0bd93c69e8be67452d7237180593dadc0

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command and Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The heuristic 'CVE_2010_0188' directly indicates this exploit. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact function is obscured by obfuscation. The document body is unreadable, providing no further context.

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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_002_off00000315.js` `ca4bf4acb85f6d4601f01310d99883bcef8542948453aba93af95470ca79c02b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x315	88741 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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