Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e889998df255ee92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.1 KB
MD5: 8172482a471de56d430b000974c692ea SHA-1: 10e2b62723cd9137d1214908676092d121653e6d SHA-256: e889998df255ee923e6862995ad85f7e4dbe278a74b4e42d5b83f9897aac43fb
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, identified as a numeric evaluation stager. This stager is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploitation 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/