Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0cdcdee32667afa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.9 KB
MD5: 123cfc861d5fba5769662a91304446b0 SHA-1: 2245697d854d0fc32a1da5a20b891716678535cd SHA-256: a0cdcdee32667afa5c6f49f303eafb1d9dbd1caadbdb66ea99adf7c14b7e72ce
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Js.Exploit.HTML-30) and a machine learning classifier. High-severity heuristics indicate the presence of risky executable script within an XFA form, specifically a numeric evaluation stager. This suggests the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or deliver a payload via its scripting capabilities. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploitation chain.

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/