Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ffdf4a87039f6ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.9 KB
MD5: cbc70b89f2792403c9a87fab5f7ae6a9 SHA-1: 8d33e9ac687a00006bd46d205196dfe8e4894fab SHA-256: 4ffdf4a87039f6bafa1f86138eff7bf6dd55c01b9689f9b2ae6fe21c5fd38725
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be exploited for malicious purposes. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable scripts and a stager designed for numeric evaluation within the XFA form. ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, confirming its malicious nature. The embedded script, when deobfuscated, appears to construct a string and potentially execute it, indicating a downloader or exploit stager.

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/