Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 663d11b5d0bfcd7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

238.1 KB Created: 2017-11-17 15:32:16 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: e3ed19de7a6c9b879cd927b4bce22d4e SHA-1: 51ca04c5654b13f055d3c373ab09f2fdafc0bac6 SHA-256: 663d11b5d0bfcd7f8317f145fff8b65f83cbdecc0fb60f39aa4a7990cdeb24bb
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious with a high score. The embedded script is likely designed to exploit a vulnerability and execute a payload, though its exact function is obscured by obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9504

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000b783.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB783 264072 bytes
embedded_pdf_script_0003a937.bin
61e9df5e63d5aa57ca51042f02feef4b3ac61fb9fcbffb080939c5d56f4c7632
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x3A937 243782 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).