Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a976d64c5c5422c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB
MD5: 464b64125bafc38ae2c11edaedd7bf26 SHA-1: 00e0dbea0536b96e9582b8ab8e817734a97c6912 SHA-256: 0a976d64c5c5422c6824fd50888fed9817621ee7925a10db51dcc62012e66ece
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains a high-severity XFA form with executable JavaScript, identified as a stager by heuristics. This script is likely designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in the exploitation chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-30 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Js.Exploit.HTML-30
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/