PDF malware analysis — malicious · cc1c98ddd681e6cf

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Created: 2004-05-02 19:56:00 Authoring application: e

MD5: 3ef0a7e819072c0224387ac16549bb9c SHA-1: b33b0e14d84094126c673365faec98c34701d94b SHA-256: cc1c98ddd681e6cfa0ff095ec26e1f9188534899789e2affb05ae8b8a92c5654

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains an embedded JavaScript file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The presence of the exploit and the embedded script strongly suggests a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_002_off0000033b.js` `54c6673d4824b38f509e74377c48292ac9d9f2ece785964af6a17e8bbdf787ed`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x33B	60903 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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