Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 386dc9ff83dadf18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

804 B
MD5: 1fb993df20cb5a88bae0926972c9c64f SHA-1: 72ed09ed0119d5abdda548c79bcfc7939eda2baa SHA-256: 386dc9ff83dadf18cc235ab046a10fe4dc952073a6c5ae5e90e29ea59d8706ad
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell T1059.005 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

The PDF file contains a launch action that executes cmd.exe. This command is used to echo a VBScript payload into a file named 'm.vbs'. The VBScript payload is obfuscated using string reversal for 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' and likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from the embedded URL http://lekorbashen.com/lola/tmp/m.vbs. The confidence is high due to the clear chain of execution from PDF launch to script execution.

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://lekorbashen.com/lola/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