PDF malware analysis — malicious · da224ae3695d555b

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2013-04-29 11:13:02

MD5: ebd440ea3d42f6e7c44a48fc9512b5b0 SHA-1: c0e95ee1bfa6cd56321262b5d983e06feed1091b SHA-256: da224ae3695d555ba8eb1843a2de558fb878661fa5f4d86cd54a3e4bd2cc0947

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image parsing. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the exploit is used to download and execute further malicious content. The file is classified as malicious with high confidence.

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
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
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
`embedded_file_obj0006.bin` `ae46e83850233d7a6f90777a52ebec022da72299e552197cb9dc725cce0f65d0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x430	78837 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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