Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d5e8c442685d672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

811.9 KB Created: 2010-09-21 21:48:31 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 1ebd7ecf85dc653d2e1f19621530c54c SHA-1: 229b6aae7f58ec30c60d57a9e7366c4fc328c33f SHA-256: 2d5e8c442685d672a912284ab7fca8953ea11364d54c2b2ad09229c95b18d919
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Html.Spyware.IMG-7, indicating malicious content. A hidden iframe was detected within the PDF structure, pointing to the URL http://www.codeforum.cn/free/max1.htm. This suggests the document is designed to lure the user into visiting a potentially harmful external site, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000ba7c.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xBA7C 264072 bytes