Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c4ff53389fcffad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.2 KB
MD5: 9b36d2233182ab773f43c450fb226788 SHA-1: 290359df971d5d2f26b7e644f14052d6f15d093a SHA-256: 7c4ff53389fcffad7d77c8729e5c188c94263b555b6f6529690ccd0c7294e854
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple high-severity heuristics, including PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER, indicating the presence of executable script within an XFA form. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA structure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be exploiting vulnerabilities through the XFA scripting engine.

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/