Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee8c807d74c93e5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bub lob
MD5: c94e5ac7635a771159bfe38178af9647 SHA-1: 4b78a4fba09bd8ba04e15161006cbe91a4fe1599 SHA-256: ee8c807d74c93e5d52225e6ce8daec62d7a19d24a3ddf8bfca0cbca77a4e72b4
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that is likely intended to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings indicate an XFA form and an embedded script payload, confirming the exploit vector. The extracted JavaScript, though large, is the primary payload and its execution is the core of the attack.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off00000324.js
76ce26b897c57d9e48e0471ff12d3b1a2dd1d02dc3c9b6f2c4370d4448a29095
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x324 47956 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).