Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4d033b11b5eef7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.1 KB
MD5: 4d6409741fcb5f6a87734d47d7dcd7a8 SHA-1: 111fa666b44dc125ea71d76500297f4b0ebe104e SHA-256: fa4d033b11b5eef75be5a19293b27453c04227eb407c39baded45c7fe6089db5
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image parsing. A deobfuscated JavaScript file was extracted, which likely contains the malicious payload. The presence of embedded files and the exploit suggests the document is designed to compromise the user's system upon opening, potentially to download further malware.

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: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
  • 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 0x2AF2 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x2BA4 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
5425de953795a6656acdba52a452c8d40561b7ea1ddc5cfe006ef40a59790997
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x2DBD 1821 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x31FA 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x32A6 77 bytes
xfa_metadata_stage_000.js
45e7bbe146b6bc076c25744d8e57c8e94461affa6552d92c60931b26079188e6
deobfuscated-js XFA /subject base-26 decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0xE4D 2208 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).