Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ed9d99c9928d3eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.2 KB
MD5: 4555a6d8bcaafc8963d2a585a19e43cc SHA-1: 0f731d26628f405c88e4b68604c48f7927f78190 SHA-256: 5ed9d99c9928d3eb634496feb7520744f4708a6d105e948dd1cb52a7ce5e5c38
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a high-severity XFA form with executable script, identified by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The script likely acts as a stager, evaluating numeric expressions to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious activity stems from the script execution.

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/