Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a584e24e9f02924f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 00aacbb9b1c945cdf12dbcc88e4f91bd SHA-1: fdc6aa36c2ebb1a40c860d79006fa204bd2bfa9d SHA-256: a584e24e9f02924fdd2f3762ca27cd32744b18f5b396818105cc24eaebacfe0a
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be a vector for exploiting vulnerabilities. The presence of 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' and 'PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER' heuristics, along with a critical ClamAV detection of 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30', strongly indicates the execution of malicious JavaScript. This script likely serves as a stager to download and execute a second-stage payload, leveraging the embedded URL for this purpose.

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/