Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc542032186bf3ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB
MD5: 679610aac89a730a053e44b4c49d9e68 SHA-1: 7e28e406d789af3d7fd14692e8088f918e19f35a SHA-256: fc542032186bf3ad38c1880ad700da735369b189b0326a6d9226f43f2a2ff8e4
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data which is known to be a vector for exploits. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic indicates a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. The extracted JavaScript stager, 'xfa_numeric_stage_000.js', further confirms the malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
xfa_numeric_stage_000.js
c394cdc31c7d7a472c23b6f27bb55a98a27987722f28a5d25194090848ba85f3
deobfuscated-js XFA rawValue numeric decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0x347 3747 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).