Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fce510a93905e8ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

291.4 KB Created: 2017-03-08 09:02:48 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 931a3c489f40755d0000cf46e7292c0f SHA-1: 2b9aab6c32324e8e8eeba84ba1207d18605e9775 SHA-256: fce510a93905e8ae17ff34b151f33505e21f8b08f1b42b10795b90be5dcc45a3
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was detected by ClamAV as Unix.Trojan.PhpBackdoor-9354530-2, indicating it contains a backdoor. A PDF heuristic firing for eval() suggests the presence of executable code within the document. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about the lure or specific functionality beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Heuristics 2

  • ClamAV: Unix.Trojan.PhpBackdoor-9354530-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Unix.Trojan.PhpBackdoor-9354530-2
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000b8c4.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB8C4 264072 bytes