PDF malware analysis — malicious · f49639ae17e82d80

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.0 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap

MD5: de1a3b4b13bf866b8aa663ea155a4151 SHA-1: 85f38aa14cb86ff79b811f09517db41e569e6bc0 SHA-256: f49639ae17e82d80bbc3741d8c13733811a9d5b48dc0b388ba4fba992b2b4089

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. The embedded script appears to be obfuscated but likely decodes and executes a payload. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' further supports the malicious nature of this file.

Heuristics 8

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.
XFA form contains executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose dataset contains a <script> or <xfa:script> block — XFA scripting has been the exploit primitive for several Adobe Reader RCEs (CVE-2010-0188 family, CVE-2018-4901, and others). Plain XFA without scripts is far less risky.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
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.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0006.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x1E7	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0007.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x289	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `5b9c08576c6195ff55e0cc096e83cc39a46e0d8e2223d22fc5952ae1a1f71c05`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3AF	1054 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x81B	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `8986be98229602404a9fd55cfb643f56c013ed4a9891566092acf29d4cb385a3`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x933	10638 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x330F	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x33AA	56 bytes

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