Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e46a6a9cf6d8e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.6 KB
MD5: 79904c9530050f519840819b7129a307 SHA-1: c25e570da24ae5fb0f4a20bfc13396534893ce5b SHA-256: 3e46a6a9cf6d8e6fd2768b8897043c04a1f439395f1c4fc247cb64f2037cbfbf
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an XFA form with executable script, identified by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The XFA numeric stager suggests an attempt to evaluate and execute code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure. The primary attack vector appears to be the exploitation of vulnerabilities within the PDF viewer or XFA processing engine.

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/