Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dbaa67f739f4391…

MALICIOUS

PDF

780 B
MD5: 337953f6f7673403d26a947fe5252937 SHA-1: 9d53b72cdb8bc7cb33d08660e55598d4f1dace76 SHA-256: 2dbaa67f739f439165cfa863da60d7936ef6ab6e93d36b3e71a5261407321021
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains a launch action that executes cmd.exe. This command is used to decode a VBScript payload, reconstructing the string 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' and 'WScript.Shell' from obfuscated parts. The script is then written to disk, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL http://nvils.in/x/img.php?d=1. The confidence is slightly reduced due to the obfuscated nature of the script.

Heuristics 4

  • 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://nvils.in/x/img.php?d=1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000067.bin
ad55c8e83a5896a04b2012c676820daeab2b84cc539e444c6366e79f55a571c5
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x67 63 bytes