Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f06cb85407001bff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2012-06-22 15:04:16 Authoring application: nyhed=oortfa(jyyas.replace(/fgje24j/g, arase.charAt(5
MD5: bcdad54fe6b6b26f0a60cc75d194c1ee SHA-1: e1c64d27090f7dc2cf59522df4e4814c11df9f5b SHA-256: f06cb85407001bff0939acc1597518c05957ed6c3c7842366ac22d254a02655a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, specifically targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of embedded files and the critical heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.Gen-259 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259
  • 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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x252 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
16fee14ea5cbd746f2b73666b7aac41fadca794c15c70d14fb87eb1ded824a09
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4A8 122 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0005.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0x582 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x62B 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0017.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0x734 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
6925baa86b6705a21c9cb80f611b2671651f17aa8191a455d847024d18adc584
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0xA38 38758 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).