Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1df644e31e38ee1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.5 KB
MD5: c2c52c562d30d9a9c10b3ed55cc02219 SHA-1: 153f29df5afe45a3c1f320e6e90347cd73be9208 SHA-256: 1df644e31e38ee1f15ffa341f916f8be4f96b999e23fe38c85a797a1651b12e3
230 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. The exploit is designed to execute obfuscated JavaScript, which is then deobfuscated and likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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.
  • ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-30 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Js.Exploit.HTML-30
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • XFA numeric JavaScript stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_JS_STAGER
    PDF XFA script reconstructs a hidden JavaScript stage from numeric field data or a character table, then evals the result. The decoder is gated on XFA script, numeric staging, and recovered exploit-like JavaScript or shellcode markers.
  • 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.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xfa_numeric_stage_000.js
8d280b03e1e8e99e0a2e12bb0e347f37767cf9b8b4654c61bde32c6033bbb137
deobfuscated-js XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x40A 3755 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).