PDF malware analysis — malicious · d35492be343185b6

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: count slam

MD5: e19c35681db0521712cd2682e58b7990 SHA-1: 2b851cda6a4d417d58faa616533a9618abb5763e SHA-256: d35492be343185b6ffd9baa6b1fa4d626ae036638fd29323cc8bc9a281c33798

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload triggered by the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The extracted JavaScript is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the exploit and embedded script indicates a malicious intent to execute arbitrary code. The document body is largely unreadable, providing no further context on the lure.

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_off0000032a.js` `da2a55813e376aeb1fbe99f6cb06e906cbeff89029db8e0403b2caaa280e704a`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x32A	75172 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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