Build of job fails during PMD analysis with the following output:

...
[CHECKSTYLE] Collecting checkstyle analysis files...
[PMD] Collecting PMD analysis files...
[PMD] Parsing of file /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/LSD/workspace/build/logs/pmd.xml failed due to an exception:

com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipChar(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1666)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.parser.PmdParser.parse(PmdParser.java:71)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.AbstractAnnotationParser.parse(AbstractAnnotationParser.java:52)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.FilesParser.parseFile(FilesParser.java:197)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.FilesParser.parseFiles(FilesParser.java:176)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.FilesParser.invoke(FilesParser.java:126)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.FilesParser.invoke(FilesParser.java:29)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:757)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:739)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.PmdPublisher.perform(PmdPublisher.java:134)
at hudson.plugins.analysis.core.HealthAwarePublisher.perform(HealthAwarePublisher.java:281)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$2.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:27)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:644)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:623)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:601)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:159)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:570)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1386)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
...

Further up in the log file, I see something that may have influence.

[exec] ERROR: option "--error-severity=1" not known.

[exec] Usage: phpcs [-nwlsavi] [--extensions=<extensions>] [--ignore=<patterns>]
[exec] [--report=<report>] [--report-width=<reportWidth>] [--report-file=<reportfile>]
[exec] [--config-set key value] [--config-delete key] [--config-show]
[exec] [--standard=<standard>] [--sniffs=<sniffs>]
[exec] [--generator=<generator>] [--tab-width=<tabWidth>] <file> ...
[exec] -n Do not print warnings
[exec] -w Print both warnings and errors (on by default)
[exec] -l Local directory only, no recursion
[exec] -s Show sniff codes in all reports
[exec] -a Run interactively
[exec] -v[v][v] Print verbose output
[exec] -i Show a list of installed coding standards
[exec] --help Print this help message
[exec] --version Print version information
[exec] <file> One or more files and/or directories to check
[exec] <extensions> A comma separated list of file extensions to check
[exec] (only valid if checking a directory)
[exec] <patterns> A comma separated list of patterns that are used
[exec] to ignore directories and files
[exec] <sniffs> A comma separated list of sniff codes to limit the check to
[exec] (all sniffs must be part of the specified standard)
[exec] <standard> The name of the coding standard to use
[exec] <tabWidth> The number of spaces each tab represents
[exec] <generator> The name of a doc generator to use
[exec] (forces doc generation instead of checking)
[exec] <report> Print either the "full", "xml", "checkstyle",
[exec] "csv", "emacs", "source", "summary" or "svnblame" report
[exec] (the "full" report is printed by default)
[exec] <reportWidth> How many columns wide screen reports should be printed
[exec] <reportfile> Write the report to the specified file path
[exec] (report is also written to screen)
[exec] Result: 2