Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9701253065c43f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB
MD5: 3565d1a7a15119f04b4b86c448363d96 SHA-1: c166329fd3b545a571d5311139611d2300f276c8 SHA-256: a9701253065c43f13a2685373907e4e1d6e0415e2c453e327fc0c69d8992bdf4
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high-severity XFA form with executable script, identified by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL, while not directly executable, is part of the XFA template structure. The primary attack vector appears to be the exploitation of XFA forms to run JavaScript, which is commonly used to download and execute further malicious content.

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/