Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02155f1406c3e01b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

796 B
MD5: 0e0f8fcc26cc22910d08ac535b65c548 SHA-1: 56cca011595bb21aeb0bdd777947e209a60ba179 SHA-256: 02155f1406c3e01beb1dc4689409f4e922ecb430b6ce1c6b35a66fa4acc4b437
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.005 Visual Basic

This PDF file contains an embedded script designed to exploit CVE-2010-1240, leveraging a launch action to execute a command chain. The command chain constructs and executes a VBScript payload, which is intended to download and run a second-stage malicious file from the URL http://tjkd.info/c1/tmp/m.vbs. The script uses obfuscation by reversing strings like 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' and 'WScript.Shell'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader Launch action VBS dropper command chain critical CVE likely CVE_2010_1240_LAUNCH_VBS_DROPPER
    PDF uses a CVE-2010-1240-style Launch action: cmd.exe is invoked from /Launch and builds a VBS stage that uses ADODB.Stream, MSXML2.XMLHTTP, or FileSystemObject to write or execute a payload.
  • Launch action high PDF_LAUNCH
    PDF contains a /Launch action with an unresolved or extension-less target — treat as potentially dangerous
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream high PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain script execution markers such as ActiveXObject/CreateObject, WScript.Shell, PowerShell, or shell-exec primitives. This is stronger than ordinary PDF JavaScript because it indicates a staged external script payload hidden in stream bytes.
  • /Launch action target: cmd high PDF_LAUNCH_COMMAND
    PDF /Launch action specifies an executable target with parameters '/c echo B="m.vbs":With CreateObject(StrReverse("PTTHLMX.2LMXSM"'.
  • 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://tjkd.info/c1/tmp/m.vbs

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000006f.bin
ad55c8e83a5896a04b2012c676820daeab2b84cc539e444c6366e79f55a571c5		 pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x6F 63 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.