Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c22fadad2a1b31dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.8 KB Created: 2012-10-05 27:44:18 Authoring application: gujas=ghjjea(gjjer.replace(/mmsdje/g, dfjrwd.charAt(5
MD5: 28b6a79d1fead053cb934fbeb20c4b24 SHA-1: 7418e5b5d77c10ec309d9b5b5843282b042fb3e6 SHA-256: c22fadad2a1b31ddba03687911d7af4d31112fdb9c5a961330c7c04a3256395a
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking

The file is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The ClamAV detection and embedded file heuristics further support the malicious nature of this document.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259
  • 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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x258 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0019.bin
15f26eff9a384cffaad04902cc0a857abc0612ee77364f1757a13d02a94d153d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0x4AF 128 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0003.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0x58C 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x636 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x73D 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
3eb9f80398d5472befd5f3d0c4519c1ef2db40235a5d9b9412c1a550e4735ab5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xA3C 34738 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).