Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82bf341eb64f8713…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.4 KB
MD5: bcf676807d57e7e074d6e78defabe9b0 SHA-1: 71f5ddde6438f33bd77d350c9d7fe49749eff01b SHA-256: 82bf341eb64f8713f2e8cbc2389f48128fe9fb78a5e7a57ab0b525a9c9c2d084
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript/TypeScript

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers a known exploit for CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to deobfuscate and execute JavaScript. The extracted JavaScript, xfa_base26_stage_000.js, is highly obfuscated but indicates an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA form structure rather than a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xEED 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF9F 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0095.bin
7442f0d5de6a01e1e8c56ba9febbcad48c5c37aee6982d2cbcbae3afb3ba5f14
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 13029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x28DB 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2988 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
98bc19620d112fc0195d7acb8b6027892b823447a2ee0eb91d5883ba282c644c
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4384 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).