Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fefa520b0b790c31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB
MD5: 2e04ef03874f477ee9ccc26b132116be SHA-1: 7ab80a07cdc167bb1a20383812afbe5169e977a1 SHA-256: fefa520b0b790c31a9e719f121479d4d3eb5ff11798c306bff2f3c6e0a309ff8
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded artifact 'stream_002_off000002b0.bin' is the decompressed XFA payload associated with this exploit.

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 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off000002b0.bin
b53e7882d4092ade1cd625eff613950a83ed7b402fdd7c832d1a2b77d4ed42e1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0 47374 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).