Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bf16ee95d3c0584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB
MD5: 130d91ec3bbd2e663bc0a25580a8ec96 SHA-1: 8415c1ef52783b2e9884e34c60da21f38779e8d2 SHA-256: 4bf16ee95d3c058415ce414609333058813fdf3ff8868b789e29d5a855694357
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains XFA forms with executable scripts, identified as a stager by heuristics. ClamAV detection as Js.Exploit.HTML-30 further confirms malicious intent. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely used in the exploitation chain. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting PDF vulnerabilities via XFA scripts 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/