Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 436f5fa72c442556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

783 B
MD5: e4ee07577a949315e393cb129fec2c49 SHA-1: 667233361365a030002d47631d1b245cde7983ea SHA-256: 436f5fa72c442556e61abd7e866ccb668833f70cf03ed081c8e73691ab32ead6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a launch action that executes cmd.exe. This command writes a VBScript to disk and then executes it. The VBScript is obfuscated but appears to download and execute a second-stage payload from the URL http://13.firni.in/x/img.php?d=1. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://13.firni.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