Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a58845fd402b555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.5 KB
MD5: dfb8cde930dd4e7ce71c86b3cbebc5bc SHA-1: 6e8b175a09ec9f1d55718dbd299e6ed0c29233f2 SHA-256: 6a58845fd402b555779f5e07633e8d52df4db9f119aaa933294260c4169aa2d4
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains XFA forms with executable scripts, identified as a stager by heuristics. ClamAV detection as Js.Exploit.HTML-30 and ML classification further indicate malicious intent. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in conjunction with the script to fetch additional malicious content.

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/