PDF malware analysis — malicious · a3a17e453b55a3c4

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB

MD5: 4fbb97f0ab98bb74a13047b6103b3c2d SHA-1: 384cec887aa7205cd6decd2be3fd494caaf98815 SHA-256: a3a17e453b55a3c4a95f623e543e44b9770245d9f1f91f494f8741f7af8dbabe

268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File 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 leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. A deobfuscated JavaScript stager was recovered, indicating the likely intent to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA schemas, further supporting the exploit vector. ClamAV detections confirm the malicious nature of the file and its extracted artifacts.

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` `55caf1bc621a87cee56eb59b8007f8e3b579141e262621d191d9f646dbd691e7`	deobfuscated-js	XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x347	3763 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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