Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 135d13b1dba41de3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.4 KB
MD5: 79faa02d1a86051294574551043067d1 SHA-1: 9694d109ab76ee04a4830ab04da0d6ab350f21cd SHA-256: 135d13b1dba41de3f6e1db479da3a680b0d6dc50996684134dfd44a11b747a9e
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form with executable script, identified by multiple high-severity heuristics and ClamAV. The script is likely designed to exploit a client-side vulnerability for execution, as indicated by the 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' detection and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' score. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit 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/