Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44a03ea6f51bcff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

239.0 KB Created: 2017-12-03 11:30:43 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: f11be78f0989e1fdbbb56228ba36d6dc SHA-1: 8d6783f3b21baaa85fb5a467a599ba234ebd7564 SHA-256: 44a03ea6f51bcff92ad8b25888e65b46864ac87554bbcdf3577a28d8217418bd
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and external URIs, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded script payload suggests the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or deliver further malicious content upon interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 5

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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://www.lnt.eng.br/armacon.html
    • http://www.multcalc.com.br/calcvigas.html

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000bb4a.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xBB4A 264072 bytes
embedded_pdf_script_0003acfa.bin
bd4f55e360ea3ac76db4b2185e7f030d3a00ecba4537b01ceba81018f7b4ecba
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x3ACFA 244745 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).