Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be7f1306c8c5bff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.0 KB
MD5: 5b879582a598bad797242d41b9d66041 SHA-1: f9da9f5c850e3dcd20a4c7e9a88c9dc9fc44972c SHA-256: 4be7f1306c8c5bffdd86a38e068f57bf11d0c0690d4aae0779ea8ab892944546
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded file and an XFA form further supports this attack vector.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xEE4 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF96 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0095.bin
89de408f16a408a7f9a9cc5d27d67be391ddb58fd9ad4ddf3d769c333fec5557
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11AF 12894 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x26B2 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x275F 77 bytes
base26_stage_000.js
127f7a659cdcab55295a13dc5cc1d51910be07836d207746875a57a352b9589c
deobfuscated-js base26-decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x13A5 4444 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).