Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 101cf29ce94a6ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

575.6 KB Created: 2010-09-16 21:57:26 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 0b5e6fb785727ff3e96678d457f851d0 SHA-1: 3047871fb92452d2c61a22faf1ac068167e434fa SHA-256: 101cf29ce94a6ffc2c66258a0a72061db1458b5fe8ac902f0436a6b108780f1d
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a hidden external HTML iframe, indicating an attempt to redirect the user to a remote resource. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URL points to an unknown domain, which is suspicious in this context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9870

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Html.Spyware.IMG-7 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Html.Spyware.IMG-7
  • PDF contains hidden external HTML iframe high PDF_HIDDEN_HTML_IFRAME
    PDF bytes contain a hidden zero-size HTML iframe pointing to an external HTTP(S) URL. This is a strong malicious dropper/redirect indicator and is not expected in ordinary PDF content.
  • 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.codeforum.cn/free/max1.htm In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://www.iec.chIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000b7a1.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB7A1 264072 bytes