PDF malware analysis — malicious · c48924b1aff8b79e

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.4 KB

MD5: a6ae1f6c59c40a97699645e2e5b54948 SHA-1: e5c37e35c3b47fa9fe1394a622fe19508490d719 SHA-256: c48924b1aff8b79ee62cff2712de800a4c76083e63306e0457f283f9af380997

230 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit. A JavaScript stager was recovered, indicating the likely intent to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is associated with the XFA schema and may be used in conjunction with the exploit. ClamAV detections further 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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`xfa_numeric_stage_000.js` `7a8f598d37dcd552914ce4c59633ab3ad11934b051e67f65a1f29d679a65334a`	deobfuscated-js	XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x3F0	3735 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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