PDF malware analysis — malicious · c6f006152d3c827e

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2002-02-02 59:55:01 Authoring application: e

MD5: d4fa9e12212051340c83bca2d75d9a9c SHA-1: 3c2d35ec4935621f3e29edc7680278e5e8c22b2e SHA-256: c6f006152d3c827eea915c1e3c50f32aab34dfabe7b90b19b6db097db1ab50a0

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The heuristic 'CVE_2010_0188' directly indicates this exploit. The embedded JavaScript file, 'stream_003_off0000038d.js', is the likely second-stage payload. The document body contains garbled text, suggesting it is not intended for human consumption but rather to trigger the exploit.

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` `65968d1d2b7abef9d95755c25c5eb766c6d6d306ae06b6d1e4bb09d019238b6d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x2FD	56 bytes
`stream_003_off0000038d.js` `4ba68e6ec6f20c6bfd5e7c93dfba593b26bdf545a783836aef6b6c282375a7ee`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x38D	52717 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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