Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1780f5513ffc74d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.7 KB
MD5: 41153dec2a0eb652514f7b687e72853c SHA-1: 13f67010b459a9adf1366bc05d967e89f2a0c731 SHA-256: 1780f5513ffc74d9f5b47c75b34b017383db73f2261d2f2da5ca7da8a9425d50
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains XFA forms with executable scripts, as indicated by multiple high-severity heuristics including PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and the script likely uses it or other means to download and execute a secondary payload, aligning with common exploitation techniques.

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/