Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2947e7b954b9789a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.9 KB
MD5: c080eb2336d568a0318eb0d811877b79 SHA-1: 21a5e62e14af9dc845e3dbd2364dba138a094da5 SHA-256: 2947e7b954b9789ab907215d5bffe6b2aa0fd27d3e7774eee6b3bbfb1eeb1354
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The extracted JavaScript, named 'xfa_base26_stage_000.js', is heavily obfuscated but indicates an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded file and an embedded URL further supports the delivery mechanism. The confidence is high due to the clear exploit signature and the nature of the embedded script.

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 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
99fb04595ac16d0699cbc8a5e55f394a937943c61a0717a52eeb820a08d1fd25
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 12839 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2725 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x27D2 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
e304fea4775d2260f869045509088c1073e545dd0892cd199e689e3fcab7dbdf
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4308 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).