Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec138603a299d70e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

399.5 KB Created: 2017-11-18 21:57:35 Authoring application: ��Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via ��TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 4874fa10259bfb27b0fd5ccb302d6b20 SHA-1: 805e955fd2e62a15d47a860c780f4aa192b545d5 SHA-256: ec138603a299d70eeaf7a44c8c7a64eab433c4859e16d4a33befd17dfb0c7f0b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier. The script is obfuscated and likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of String.fromCharCode further suggests script-based malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8638

Heuristics 3

  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00062f0c.bin
7d7890f309f929bebb070b09f9125e5b3bf3dc3a1bd7e99c45a67ca849759f05
pdf-embedded-script PDF decompressed stream script payload at offset 0x62F0C 409115 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).