Thief stolen ability from warrior "Whirling Axe"
The ability you’re describing is one of the more rare steals in my experience. I think it’s intended to be a nice DPS boost, but I doubt it does as much as a the native warrior ability (although I can’t confirm that for sure).
As for the built-in evasion… I’m fairly sure that’s intended. Out of 100 steals, I maybe get this ability 1-5 times, if that. It’s pretty rare (especially in PvE). It seems a bit more common in WvW.