Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5eb091803a3d8d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.4 KB
MD5: d0c5d32e951c140b8d0c4ae20439aa9d SHA-1: 9b4be9e99f2bc1b92141c5c57f25c5bfc3b50d9b SHA-256: a5eb091803a3d8d6fd3fe276c8a6b3715acaf14cb6e89feb9665bb8115292349
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file contains XFA form elements that trigger a known vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188) in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability is used to execute a deobfuscated JavaScript payload, which likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA schemas, further indicating the exploit's vector.

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
95031f770b2bd2f60c91c20ec963901bb3fa7c3adfb49e65295bf69dad4a93b2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 13049 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x28CA 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2977 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
044797c70e50fac76d841de7acfab0ca1b420954180ee012abdf23a3e7ad73e4
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4392 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).