Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92558ab393773a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.3 KB
MD5: 914e99c476edb6d93cb819d73016c6a3 SHA-1: f4ff90fcebf3baa01b590f2fe44d65b521157f07 SHA-256: 92558ab393773a3ff7ecd66d05a3d9a502cd07636242f6013b4cc7570f93e8ba
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers a known exploit, CVE-2010-0188, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a deobfuscated JavaScript payload (xfa_base26_stage_000.js) found within the document. The script's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicating a typical dropper or downloader 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 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
6270e72472c3af3f063f23358a49965de00cc35c4edb37f08e22d1897e6573ca
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 12949 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x28A5 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2952 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
1ac84416719a8f9cfcce4756ee0aa8c7c6bcb4b573b5c9d80888feb5cadcff05
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4352 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).