Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd2fc6d8e29b829a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.4 KB
MD5: 434a370a00202e4a22c8f9891ee1b75a SHA-1: a6ba66e58e4a2621f583708c0a5b539829dd445a SHA-256: cd2fc6d8e29b829ad46ea21228ab97ebc01657665b742bb2413adfba2477dc1a
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript file that is obfuscated and likely malicious. The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The extracted JavaScript, named 'xfa_base26_stage_000.js', is highly suspicious due to its size and obfuscation, suggesting it's a second-stage payload designed to be executed by the exploit. The embedded nature and the exploit target point towards a document-based attack aiming to compromise the user's system.

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.

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
958ee365757eff86eab26972574a91f460d54a53316616c58c1669c88941f1f0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 12989 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x28D6 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2983 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
9889ff709a196ae8c36b0a529b8458488453abd28290ece268dd144bd97a8095
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4368 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).