PDF malware analysis — malicious · 814ecc8554c918a9

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.3 KB

MD5: 5bd6e1d8e9374f7f09373ac13fdc5563 SHA-1: 5624637e9f764bec9672b91e365ba0dad9c7ff55 SHA-256: 814ecc8554c918a9c2ab33d82eebf823ef042dd29c1adc6688a6b34eb97657bc

268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188 via XFA forms, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings. The embedded JavaScript stager, xfa_numeric_stage_000.js, is heavily obfuscated but detected by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. This script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, a common technique for initial compromise. The presence of an embedded URL further supports this attack vector.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xfa_numeric_stage_000.js` `7a8f598d37dcd552914ce4c59633ab3ad11934b051e67f65a1f29d679a65334a`	deobfuscated-js	XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x3F0	3735 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).

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