Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3f019e51b4a16af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.6 KB
MD5: 3180c94e99467a65254601b853f7f673 SHA-1: 83fae9e91716ac5785094c3a55fce0e650c00760 SHA-256: c3f019e51b4a16af29eff78421369131801ad3b2d406553ca3c05693df3cdd13
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form with executable script, identified as a stager by heuristics. ClamAV detection as 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms malicious intent. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging XFA scripting to download and execute a secondary 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/