Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2946b7952f6740ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.6 KB
MD5: dadc6fc90d9d91bd618cc39f1889e82a SHA-1: 345e6b2d58c177a4cc35ce2c1a5729ab8cde89d0 SHA-256: 2946b7952f6740cabe0d790c76d6efe190b1567fc2f09a2ca56c9c096902d717
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image processing. The analysis also identified deobfuscated JavaScript, which likely facilitates the exploitation process. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the document's structure that enables the exploit. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of this known vulnerability to achieve code execution.

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.
  • 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
  • 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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x109C 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x114E 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0063.bin
b6b3b0d138e0b6d78841709b796553f4c0f97f5493f4370d7a86540e0b729e61
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 63 at offset 0x1367 8284 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2342 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x23EF 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
d8d3ec5f47d325a68c42d6909eb045895d79b4aacc4c4f8180318a569d1f0119
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x17B6 2146 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
deobfuscated.js
7a63c7d5080a360bc4ea1df13072dc3fc18637592bf6f42f08dd932582cc2bf7
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 23201 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).