Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbbb335e44db8e35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.4 KB Created: 2010-03-21 10:36:25 Authoring application: llPDFLib program (via llPDFLib 3.x)
MD5: 47f4a462084ac85f240451023e4bc0a9 SHA-1: 8d58d68b6e159391595d42105ff7c4414b88d425 SHA-256: fbbb335e44db8e353b8272168f7dce72bb495316145e730864ae4aa4296c918d
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution, which is commonly used to download and execute further malicious content. No specific malware family was identified, but the exploit vector is clear.

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
abbf9faf59a168141cc70da8732fc2879df0d8c54926424071498a26e76c2717
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x57 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_005_off0002021c.bin
09c0287cf1909deec4a6dc5089de8c422f9bd424587ca092f28c1b798e6a837a
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2021C 5825 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.55, consistent with packed or encrypted content.