Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3ca399eaff2bf97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.3 KB
MD5: 0124cdbaa45bf7cc5cbd72a7a5320692 SHA-1: 8e5361bced7d3f38f48d91045da22170e5ec4e7d SHA-256: e3ca399eaff2bf97495a3719a1ebd6c1382cb75b121376163c0a3d30108c0308
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded file and an XFA form further supports the exploitation vector. The extracted URL is likely related to the XFA form structure but does not appear to be malicious itself.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xEE4 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF96 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0095.bin
3f9aa2066d967b5c3ad81f9050f5885a7efd843eed587fd8618dadbd9e12188a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11AF 12544 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x27BD 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x286A 77 bytes
base26_stage_000.js
588308bba55c985bf86470605fdab9071b33f77d08f57880a3ad529d7adb2d56
deobfuscated-js base26-decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x13A5 4304 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).