Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afb3cc096994f172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.1 KB Created: 2012-10-05 17:43:18 Authoring application: nyhed=blpka(jyyas.replace(/fgje24j/g, arase.charAt(5
MD5: 0f445ba2d1cce8a8332f2f54054ebe87 SHA-1: 8619bb29dd44c10a7c89e5b43f896806c30b9aab SHA-256: afb3cc096994f172635db0d8115d96707a1e5693be35a8c63ca5c76de64ef0a3
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a secondary payload upon opening. The embedded file, particularly 'embedded_file_obj0002.bin', is likely the delivered payload.

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_obj0010.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x257 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0019.bin
9c7c33a35c9ef8e1f56a4a2380c705cc365080e9163619be802f1239e0ed47dc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0x4DE 154 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0003.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0x5CE 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x678 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x77F 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
f63531e3cb30c0e80721d9d6f39cd634f5297bf510a7be733177ab80723f9766
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xAC6 39311 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).