Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ceb2091951dbeff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 4a4f8c032da0037344a40da7a310be6c SHA-1: 299a1f1ee891b087d8a493b8b27d80bbd4b8f097 SHA-256: 6ceb2091951dbeffd763c189987d18c91a5ff4bb8729467ecacafc4870a2cecd
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to code execution. Heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable scripts and a numeric evaluation stager within the XFA form, strongly suggesting an exploit. The ClamAV detection of 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms its malicious nature, likely involving JavaScript execution to download and run 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/