Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 211e7ce59a7580c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB
MD5: 65b1cff367385549f5dbfa7db6e5cde2 SHA-1: a90329fac25bf32a1d9c0fb80116b7a9b61a94f3 SHA-256: 211e7ce59a7580c86260d3d12351e1112e1aff05b57ddf82bd817c4a98eec1e3
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188 via XFA forms to deliver a JavaScript stager. The deobfuscated JavaScript, recovered from the XFA numeric stager, is detected by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload host. The primary attack vector is user interaction with the malicious PDF, leading to exploit execution.

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.
  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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
b9188502addff884a4447fe5226b657395d09119b28e816df3f83bbd660c41b8
deobfuscated-js XFA replacement character-table decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x30C 3759 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).