PDF malware analysis — malicious · ae5908fe7c907800

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.1 KB

MD5: 3d784f55827ae9bb26a14ccc8a7c001b SHA-1: 121e24ba53562ceb0215134f034a759c79cef42f SHA-256: ae5908fe7c907800f9c7ca6db7f6633eb1273fa515f00fa33430df13e0160698

184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. A deobfuscated JavaScript file was extracted, which likely contains the malicious payload. The presence of embedded files and the ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. The primary attack vector appears to be exploiting a known PDF vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.

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: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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 0x2AFE	85 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0042.bin` `dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2BB0	1029 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0043.bin` `5425de953795a6656acdba52a452c8d40561b7ea1ddc5cfe006ef40a59790997`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2DC9	1821 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x3206	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x32B2	77 bytes
`xfa_metadata_stage_000.js` `45e7bbe146b6bc076c25744d8e57c8e94461affa6552d92c60931b26079188e6`	deobfuscated-js	XFA /subject base-26 decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0xE4D	2208 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found 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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