Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ef68721830b7e4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.6 KB
MD5: 8286478db27c7b7be8804ad8ebe7dc2e SHA-1: 8b21d623258f966ba50c4be68911d9ce0bbb7ef5 SHA-256: 8ef68721830b7e4d412058580f70258cfc9c214540c5148c3f88233b8a7f78ee
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form with executable script, identified as a stager by heuristics. ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating it likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of this delivery mechanism. The exact nature of the second-stage payload is not discernible from the provided evidence.

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/