Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9eeda35d759eb02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.7 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: arcare godgoo
MD5: fef1d6cd2e08511518bb2f15da8c7f53 SHA-1: 33c05e446cea3573e571563f841f7d7adb15bb28 SHA-256: b9eeda35d759eb0270a65ef1082ccdbc5fef5626ce1969caaedca288d1a94746
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious JavaScript T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The script is designed to be executed upon opening the PDF in a vulnerable reader version. The embedded artifact 'stream_002_off00000336.js' is the likely payload. The exploit targets a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms.

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_off00000336.js
f5988043a7e9e084b8df2673cd80efd71cc466572c7af55fabb1fd17eeef8e6a
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x336 89783 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).