Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91b871b90ca95beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

800 B
MD5: f55b1d5f4e2b2af04a169411a719170a SHA-1: 09858f0b93b1f64e555ef64d09412c9ccf8967b6 SHA-256: 91b871b90ca95beb507125a3407def2a3362864ea882ad334b0d1d72be55065c
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a launch action that executes a command to create and write a VBScript file named 'm.vbs'. This script is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL http://softpowertech.in/tmp/m.vbs. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the PDF launch action targeting cmd.exe is a common delivery mechanism for malware.

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://softpowertech.in/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