Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f138e3485d5f7400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.9 KB
MD5: 7584d1e46415ffd84de1fd61a838ac95 SHA-1: 5a3ce3598437a8ccca7edc0531698c1cee8232d2 SHA-256: f138e3485d5f7400c38b95a9726685a2551a22b82897f2166429e4f177a69d5a
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers a known exploit, CVE-2010-0188. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, and in this case, it is used to run a deobfuscated JavaScript file (xfa_base26_stage_000.js). The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, although its exact actions are not fully detailed in the provided evidence. The presence of the exploit and the embedded script strongly indicate a malicious intent, likely for further system compromise.

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
4898992a5fe4245a37c5138e8084c69bc6178287cd6f411b22f6935ebf2126bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 95 at offset 0x11B8 12879 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2724 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x27D1 77 bytes
xfa_base26_stage_000.js
c7cc89d4ff572c7169a98a6261d98f54625775eb81e61624a6813a8b29a388f8
deobfuscated-js XFA base-26 decoded JavaScript (decompressed) at offset 0x1726 4324 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).