Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5188683bfdc091e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 5d9b4a4be3bad93d4f2e971a565012a1 SHA-1: 22c4244230bb5abe2f31093808781840d0c95eec SHA-256: e5188683bfdc091ec8e8e5fe57f9cfa211fc077facf50756a940402e9e573832
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains an XFA form with executable script, identified by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The script appears to be a stager designed to evaluate numeric characters and construct a payload. The embedded URL, http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/, is likely used to fetch or host the exploit. The script's obfuscated nature and the presence of exploit-related heuristics indicate it's intended to download and execute a second-stage 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/