PDF malware analysis — malicious · b7b1eb9ebdcbcbe0

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Authoring application: stb

MD5: 0d452216fff4a7fc9bd8ec9a1c71de9f SHA-1: 851032e0d606e08c845526a4bcb850ace78c3d1d SHA-256: b7b1eb9ebdcbcbe0d4c174a477ecb4e32e0e6e9945e933db40994353194141d0

132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

This PDF document is malicious and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image handling. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. An embedded JavaScript payload was extracted, which likely serves as the second-stage downloader or executioner.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
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
Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL

The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
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_001_off000002e7.js` `53babe63e06e5dcd23e38dc69569c7273bc15b3bcc61902622917efdd84c5275`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7	73945 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).

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