Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 481b4e8e47654b62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 290c1a9426e6ef80597c86f391b04622 SHA-1: 44e4c25214b432c4ca873dbb968d1c3af77f1da7 SHA-256: 481b4e8e47654b62b13cf0affa9c50c3183902aefdbe505979fc2b6f4533f80b
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a high-severity XFA script that is flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a specific ClamAV detection for Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The presence of an XFA numeric stager indicates an attempt to evaluate and execute code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging XFA scripting to deliver a malicious 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/