PDF malware analysis — malicious · bec4df7fa43aba47

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2013-04-29 11:13:02

MD5: eeebc12362f824a3e1a64b1f360bc3b2 SHA-1: 83cd2d46eb824e32828d332cf9afee38b5462aa7 SHA-256: bec4df7fa43aba47db83da3a958423c935b748aec08f61756d7d5e1bef1c410c

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings. The exploit likely leads to the execution of an embedded script payload, which is common for this vulnerability. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is suspicious and likely contains the secondary 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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
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
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
`embedded_file_obj0006.bin` `23d41282a97128667ef17503cfa9afc050b8c93edf2f6ccccdd58bdfbac79009`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x430	78560 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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