Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c09432680bd54a87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.0 KB
MD5: c1a4f2e27c5099f29b33e8e31f2e65d7 SHA-1: e9874cc2655dff32cd1460f1a10267d9ffa98648 SHA-256: c09432680bd54a870e562063c0f6175b1746f8ba1144abfdde2d85e7c47faabb
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple high-severity heuristics, including PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER, indicating the presence of executable script within an XFA form. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure. The primary attack vector appears to be the exploitation of XFA vulnerabilities to execute a stager script, which likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

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/