PDF malware analysis — malicious · c4fa1ba6e22f2ec1

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB

MD5: fd8311e8879f55409cc992a9a159a0a7 SHA-1: 8a185dcf187511f2a85dcc34ce6c2be2413f05b4 SHA-256: c4fa1ba6e22f2ec1b22e29c68d316fb75d6987745800361e60113f5a7ae9debf

230 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data which is leveraged by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms, specifically numeric JavaScript. The heuristic 'PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_JS_STAGER' indicates that a stager script was recovered, which is further confirmed by the ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' and 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962' on extracted artifacts. This stager likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

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` `088297143b7b97d25ad41e0c0f956e5a1de2c06488467854c6a626ba1b3af696`	deobfuscated-js	XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x3A8	3739 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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