PDF malware analysis — malicious · ce64cd4196900d81

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.4 KB

MD5: d8d1b5be1f5f0df77350c5ba3c9a185d SHA-1: 5e3c6aeee97061123f7bba6768fc9d5aaa39f16a SHA-256: ce64cd4196900d8156efd82d8307f4c7678564d1829e38e25fad8b314cb9262c

86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which is known to target Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. The heuristic 'CVE_2010_0188' specifically indicates exploitation of this flaw via decompressed JavaScript. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, as is common with this type of exploit. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit chain.

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.
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
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-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` `7de7b22ee76b63d1ac7836844c9c3a20a017d38bb0ca72db6409e1b40f0aefeb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8	13069 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0044.bin` `3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x28D7	144 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0045.bin` `10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2984	77 bytes
`xfa_base26_stage_000.js` `45cdb6f5a48c1c2a0c81b5529b9dbc331eeb6ce4d327d823d53f8d774cb3b000`	deobfuscated-js	XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726	4400 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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