Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6e9f4d7ee15eeaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.8 KB
MD5: 7c796cf8dc12a11452880e5d6ee24f30 SHA-1: 3cc645fbed1610b118819e77184e90440a185a0c SHA-256: c6e9f4d7ee15eeaaa1cae3fccf0502f624e320816f09a5d348527936734837a1
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an XFA form with executable script, identified as a numeric evaluation stager. This stager is known to be used for downloading and executing second-stage payloads. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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/