PDF malware analysis — malicious · ca28e68df9128fcc

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.1 KB Created: 2011-03-17 03:50:30 Authoring application: sup sub

MD5: 0dddb52cbaaf5cb533fe067195234efe SHA-1: 739d0eb9d6cff7340d1e4e0ed51e5956f77f88e1 SHA-256: ca28e68df9128fcc3db0a911a9d93bd27a4b21de493b49ec1bc79497dc7a3599

206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains critical XFA heap spray exploit code targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution. The presence of embedded scripts and an embedded file further indicates a malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body text appears to be unrelated filler content.

Heuristics 9

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.
XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY

PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0018.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x132E	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x13C9	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x14F5	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `2876eac6f1b17337b68beea27d9f54e23096efe7d3d6afc3f843d0098af85a71`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x1604	135 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0004.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0x16D1	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x1764	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0017.bin` `fc800e27872ba93462f662578ff7df813999cc0d5934639521c958a3a088c07a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0x1A93	4252 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).

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