Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ef5b8bfe4061745…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 0cc28d140403bb2f80bc7a9034624f9b SHA-1: 75044ac07b97c866cff7bdcf803ad4ecfdaf48c1 SHA-256: 2ef5b8bfe4061745bd15432b86515a98eeab1a3e1d4802b7bdcaf61bdb9c4a20
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including critical ClamAV detection (Js.Exploit.HTML-30) and ML classification. The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts and a numeric evaluation stager indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely involved in the exploitation chain. The primary attack vector appears to be exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF reader via crafted XFA content.

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/