Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4936daf548b68c0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB
MD5: c2591e2775e7a2fb4e6703e0c6c68f1d SHA-1: 7e5bd94142cfe50464c90fea970cecf65a72e723 SHA-256: 4936daf548b68c0ad4a8baae20976201cee7eea58ff3996b261c2b2b383758e3
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including XFA script execution and a numeric stager. ClamAV identified it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is part of the XFA template structure. The primary attack vector appears to be the execution of embedded JavaScript within the XFA form, which is designed to download and execute 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/