Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3207b8df62e6ad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.0 KB
MD5: 5aec0429fac7461f05af334ed94f387c SHA-1: 99458a774da4d667232f9c42c578aeedb0e9cf2b SHA-256: c3207b8df62e6ad075b09ec2c8742b2c263ace670b72e9cda1952609798d82b9
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form with executable script and a numeric evaluation stager, indicating a malicious intent. ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting it's designed to exploit JavaScript vulnerabilities within PDF viewers. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging XFA script execution to download and run a secondary payload.

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/