Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40b6db9cc12152a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.8 KB
MD5: 07e92a3c0c0207b5a7f5ea94210d26c5 SHA-1: 04fd324e2755779690bc3742672e9468874dc8c0 SHA-256: 40b6db9cc12152a2afa1bf59e1b3acce5fe736bf2c93e1aa7462d88c556aeafd
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an XFA form with executable script, identified as a numeric character-table eval stager. ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities via JavaScript. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging XFA and JavaScript to execute malicious code, likely to download and run a secondary payload.

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/