Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93af595a3a488638…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB
MD5: 406acd49053cf7dd0e0c4b91c9127335 SHA-1: 7908f6dbbabb907ea9689dc8bcfc4932ec86e003 SHA-256: 93af595a3a4886380e3d32c9e5be8dc5e50b0c66058828aae620c4217bbad6af
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. Static analysis identified a JavaScript stager within the XFA form, which is responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. ClamAV detections (Js.Exploit.HTML-30 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962) further confirm the malicious nature of the file and its extracted components. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xfa_numeric_stage_000.js
f28f7b6af0848a266422cde85fbc08f9ac7b0d6f288b4cf56e9cac742f0830da
deobfuscated-js XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x33D 4355 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).