PDF malware analysis — malicious · a53e09e0def97c21

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.3 KB

MD5: 16db4fd41488c1a09c93dd83b339d292 SHA-1: da633f98ebbfb340e2ebc22c90655dbb56e63dbd SHA-256: a53e09e0def97c214050bacf5056de53392c1b21ac563759615a699e370f035d

86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious Link/Object: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. A deobfuscated JavaScript file was extracted, which likely contains the malicious payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA schemas, further supporting the exploitation vector. The script's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload, leveraging the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xEE4	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF96	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0095.bin` `cd67727abc5ca972daa7e771726844bc662ea8251abbd39778beb88b81f890e9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11AF	12564 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x27A8	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2855	77 bytes
`base26_stage_000.js` `a910cd7d5d955200e474ebcbbfdf6c7ad999ecc90dd4076f76a0ccb572442266`	deobfuscated-js	base26-decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x13A5	4312 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).

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