Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d91ca3623096374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.4 KB
MD5: ca9e6d79e5dd062387eba1f8d4d833b1 SHA-1: 08688a40ca1014ecd4c8bf1f7a6d683accbdd645 SHA-256: 4d91ca362309637424ca0e9c8b7371efb89d082e2ffb09a1495664624b487d9e
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that contains embedded JavaScript, identified as exploiting CVE-2010-0188. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports the exploitation vector. The deobfuscated JavaScript indicates a malicious intent to download and run external code.

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 0xEEC 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF9E 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0063.bin
4ecc49eb59f5a4585a8a7007116af3f37ceb5bad2774f361aa84f3d2ef1a8fb5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 63 at offset 0x11B7 8059 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 0x212C 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x21D9 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
d8d3ec5f47d325a68c42d6909eb045895d79b4aacc4c4f8180318a569d1f0119
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1944 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
d2f258fb243618fdca22697c2b5d37ddb402eb8dfb3eabdda4fa5bd227995682
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 28897 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).