PDF malware analysis — malicious · c704f9c4e3ed3c29

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: 870820a32facf10b8375f9862c9b02f1 SHA-1: aa60136586bcf44da1154969369ea532aba341f6 SHA-256: c704f9c4e3ed3c291ecddf4f5e1fbff13241a9880fe8595cf20417aafb034e7b

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file, named stream_003_off000003b0.js, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The document body itself contains obfuscated text, suggesting an attempt to hide the malicious nature of the file.

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` `cef6dbb6ee6616c95eb37138f6f5b0a6c2b761182aa9bd3c73a42c7803b9297f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x302	86 bytes
`stream_003_off000003b0.js` `b969104d1f1003f7cc79b632365d53e586b065732af98beb5bf6e3254ca16597`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3B0	52764 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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