Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ca440999339896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.6 KB
MD5: 7d1a37c2dd5051b299c4d0496960b648 SHA-1: fb82a16c03f4c4111b4cc5d5113b2971351296e1 SHA-256: e9ca440999339896ba7eaffe712377ad28307a9f1c75b61aa53ab6ee2bd43b11
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 stager by heuristics. ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating a JavaScript exploit. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. The script's purpose is to evaluate numeric expressions, a common technique for obfuscating and executing malicious JavaScript within XFA forms, which likely leads to the download and execution of 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/