PDF malware analysis — malicious · e41bbad3e2be151e

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB

MD5: 473db4787a8cb1646de4a1527f1f2470 SHA-1: 6388812fd4056314d95651970607ffc552dc46f2 SHA-256: e41bbad3e2be151e71823be924f0ecf5ecab8bb6a5bbac408de2e5f9057bb705

268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The file is a PDF document containing an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. Static analysis recovered a JavaScript stager (xfa_numeric_stage_000.js) which is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. ClamAV detections further confirm the malicious nature of the file and its extracted components.

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.
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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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` `331d3e37fd8f9e643e92d3cff0eb76826bc25d9f5b9a9379fe315b5c622ece59`	deobfuscated-js	XFA replacement character-table decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x30C	3779 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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