Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19f85faadf4863d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.3 KB
MD5: 79f6aa730f353998013f1a3ca5068d09 SHA-1: 8e1ae858014cbc342c9bdb4725114d3ee628c023 SHA-256: 19f85faadf4863d37a5eda9414f9af7bfcacb60c8395f55cb0d5d009dfb060ae
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript file that is obfuscated and likely malicious. The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. The extracted JavaScript, xfa_base26_stage_000.js, is heavily obfuscated, suggesting it's designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports a malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xEED 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF9F 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0095.bin
3612b1a29ccde3db3d03c4656a1003e01464e29c6276705981e078f0fadd24b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 12909 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x288B 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2938 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
dc39ce8e29fb34c32973e361b4223649529a9bc1dca04b0f65f3472af6cb37d4
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4336 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).