PDF malware analysis — malicious · be881998c1fb499a

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB Created: 2003-03-03 59:56:01

MD5: 1446477f7e0da5e179544e84e3263e6f SHA-1: 945b363fd98d9d408e52738b301d00ea1ca28eae SHA-256: be881998c1fb499ad277f5f562d9e4214a86b5255e723d770151d4766558eeae

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload triggered by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets Adobe Reader. The extracted JavaScript file, stream_003_off000003a3.js, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports the malicious nature of this document.

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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0029.bin` `da59a89d289ed5940bc457b8de6713ed06bad685674148187e645f54bc0f5ca9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x2B3	173 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`stream_003_off000003a3.js` `33afe0bb0c345164cb09a05cd7ba37e22bc15f5eafc256b331c1bd2e0bd1f015`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3A3	44135 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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