Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab01caf061ba2f88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: Lb2m
MD5: 7d4eaba8bd7f0f0992e4fd691598b9e0 SHA-1: 3e8f2351a0465d5ed2e4cb52f68fc7105330a8c6 SHA-256: ab01caf061ba2f88d5accf6836884b51f6600effc69f8dd6ffb8912b8c71c092
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings indicate an XFA form and an embedded script payload, strongly suggesting the execution of malicious code. The extracted JavaScript file is the primary artifact for further analysis.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000031f.js
24cd4c6340d86a7937e9a90bc502c71ebaadfb1616f16d0cdd6bc84319f02100
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31F 84366 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).