Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f97f051149c90f06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.7 KB Created: 2012-10-19 12:51:53 Authoring application: nnrrg=unescape(broroa.replace(/lalaiy/g, druuie.charAt(4
MD5: 85c6c1d50fc2423eedb9a0a062c54bf8 SHA-1: c1424a4ca90fbf97b88d07099c5d7fb2a7062437 SHA-256: f97f051149c90f065ffdd7ff5f1dfaefb453e8b9bcdc9edbba33094aea399f7e
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. No specific family could be identified, but the exploit mechanism is clear.

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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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_obj0006.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x257 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
d362a3d8770baeb9ed2be0453a63697626130b34f07de57ee5edccfab0665b3c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x47D 68 bytes
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x526 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x5D0 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0004.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0x6D7 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
7f58e2f3a8be8f7ac6a0291f85e6c1da8a3daa969c52db214f7335c938b620fe
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x9E1 35671 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).