Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7293fa9a29297b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

239.0 KB Created: 2017-11-25 03:49:04 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 19c6bb44c7225f419abcf02cfb59115c SHA-1: c2b59ccc230790feff4872e77bac5d47ee2cb72b SHA-256: e7293fa9a29297b49098dc3cfb1d86272fb7a2791490add1d7babc527091f936
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded scripts and external URIs pointing to suspicious domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script payload, combined with the external URLs, suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious websites. The PDF_FROMCHARCODE heuristic indicates potential obfuscation techniques used within the script.

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
de7280cf8efe9890be1f1dc114dd606ce5f589e5dddd4e87e22c057a11c92c89
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).