Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c4c0f2527b0771d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB
MD5: 749e05aaa0e7759308f0603763b0660a SHA-1: 8626501f60b9d80e25f8957de4c5b695c4d790f6 SHA-256: 4c4c0f2527b0771d5d48d16cd9a78d55a93c6c6b0eb7182707738375b73283e3
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. A JavaScript stager, recovered from the XFA rawValue, is present and likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. ClamAV detections (Js.Exploit.HTML-30, Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962) further confirm the malicious nature of the file and its extracted artifact.

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
43c128e73925ceeb73337d13067dcf6026a621e7d6be8f7255902107853b51c2
deobfuscated-js XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x347 3743 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).