Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a58cbdcc7df3feb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.4 KB
MD5: 066085230075cad82729b4265603a62b SHA-1: 0a80e653621a15072ada536f04be03c7c2f12ddc SHA-256: a58cbdcc7df3feb2b6593005b431f246897fd17835b42172d370c98b84b93c9c
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a high-severity XFA script that acts as a stager, indicated by the 'PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in conjunction with the script to fetch additional malicious content. The script's primary function is to evaluate numeric expressions, a common technique for obfuscating and executing malicious code within XFA forms.

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/