PDF malware analysis — malicious · ad1418a774af7a91

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.0 KB

MD5: 4b627c844f73de95691bf465500d649b SHA-1: d5b5c0bda20091b0675d6cb9c24c09a7f2b935df SHA-256: ad1418a774af7a91e6a3221fa9fd2c091f4d8a5df479bc9df0c330730186734b

124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The heuristic 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' indicates a suspicious extracted artifact named 'xfa_base26_stage_000.js', which is likely responsible for the exploit execution. The primary goal appears to be the download and execution of a second-stage payload, though the specific details of that payload are not available in the provided evidence.

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.
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.
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
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 0xEED	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF9F	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0095.bin` `595a148e5a91d099db5b7a33f82fa98c41f3d5ea44a3a196594dd6085df5e65c`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8	12919 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2734	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x27E1	77 bytes
`xfa_base26_stage_000.js` `b827b7d181a85a613f7d96c1313c19cce0899f70bb5395f67afc3540013cac43`	deobfuscated-js	XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726	4340 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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