Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13177f8e6bdd7473…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.4 KB
MD5: c0d50528d421eb6ea8b039468cd6736a SHA-1: 2bb0abedf8e58c5e56b33801d576a9c01eb936db SHA-256: 13177f8e6bdd7473106cd74b4d320815422ddfd9ada20fd047ebc5fc6b106a60
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high-severity XFA form with executable script, identified by heuristics as a numeric evaluation stager. This indicates the sample is designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and could be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/