Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56dad1d55e5f0f27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.6 KB
MD5: 2892179069e68c0279497eb36e1f275e SHA-1: 798313adeff572f2ea8cab50c4e254d4389d2f1c SHA-256: 56dad1d55e5f0f27c0dca0d874ad0d3e13acb2f731fdc131a7cd462bb5d36a0e
88 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers a known exploit for CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. Deobfuscated JavaScript was extracted, indicating the likely intent to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple embedded files and suspicious JavaScript suggests a downloader or dropper functionality.

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
a27c0111011328c46c588b5c2f2e2b47ee7f45d41a31599aa81b26af9c4e1028
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 63 at offset 0x1367 8308 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 0x2340 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x23ED 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
3f20812528b0e682747f1a2629fd697089df38ffa7053601190af593e417904c
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 20526 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).