PDF malware analysis — malicious · b870973ee2e27840

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.1 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap

MD5: 6dc85b2cd404ee5edc9df45a1b4abc98 SHA-1: 8cd0a61fbaf312f3617db48d2209bdaa4610923a SHA-256: b870973ee2e278404e2ef464f39777bb535c0628f4bebb8dc9ff348d43c3a688

276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with executable script, triggering critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188 and ClamAV detection. The script is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of embedded files further supports a malicious intent.

Heuristics 10

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.
XFA form contains executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose dataset contains a <script> or <xfa:script> block — XFA scripting has been the exploit primitive for several Adobe Reader RCEs (CVE-2010-0188 family, CVE-2018-4901, and others). Plain XFA without scripts is far less risky.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
String.fromCharCode medium PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically (matched inside decoded stream)
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
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
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `78f9631071f03cd2eafd8de565f399d0c62edde5175ed6f90c6215135b7f3b76`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB	134 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `d4ff871de6628873a7035e48c3dfa9affd8413c4e514b4f2b79a912efb0ddaf9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1AA	712 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `53f09248ae6ceed8006064c6ab89756488f1727adf833430dc7904f692ec4810`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4BD	421 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6AD	323 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `67baa60d7c96846ca4cf78993dc148e7c8c70065efe3b5180e006439a8955655`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x84E	12147 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x1408	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x149C	56 bytes

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