Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73e1142b0d62eddb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.5 KB
MD5: 516368c80f98787c4245ab35d460ae0b SHA-1: bb95bbc1d3b0e0dc56cc75f6cd48fb3e1dc55963 SHA-256: 73e1142b0d62eddbb43bd939785e2b923f69c6b19569ce23fbfb503576227ad7
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to script execution. Heuristics indicate the presence of a stager script designed to evaluate numeric expressions, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms the malicious nature, pointing towards JavaScript exploitation.

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/