PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2493989543b12d4f

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.0 KB

MD5: 6e9fb310bc71a5e3c50f81985735fe67 SHA-1: 551a0291e6683927770b80f55d4e2035534011a9 SHA-256: 2493989543b12d4f0a8bba66fbdb5cd7da84ae980ba0f94feaa32f469d8c0287

124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript file (xfa_base26_stage_000.js) that is likely responsible for exploiting the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, and the embedded script is the primary mechanism for delivering the malicious payload. The presence of XFA forms and an embedded file further supports this attack vector. The script itself was too obfuscated to determine its exact second-stage actions.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`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` `f4381089718b8a82dacc726b93eae9c67c58cb3cd1d602081ce27ec4517691dd`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8	12979 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2732	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x27DF	77 bytes
`xfa_base26_stage_000.js` `34e247e16c849ec8f2f86e7e1f106e5c8108f61dad23ee0612460b92c99b41d6`	deobfuscated-js	XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726	4364 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).

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