IcedID — PDF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca29fa051456d5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

153.0 KB Created: 2022-12-28 09:11:48 -08:00 Authoring application: iTextSharp’ 5.5.13.2 ©2000-2020 iText Group NV (AGPL-version)
MD5: be50736c8387da68a94d0a2642158147 SHA-1: 17673843e33ae727689e8a34d265d0abbe045da3 SHA-256: 3ca29fa051456d5a4cc26cbc414c898c0a56f9f9d1f38a50b54764b735bd6268
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

IcedID · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains invisible and repeated links pointing to a URL that delivers a ZIP payload, consistent with the IcedID banking trojan's distribution methods. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to download and execute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9601

Heuristics 4

  • Invisible/repeated PDF links deliver payload file critical PDF_REPEATED_PAYLOAD_LINK_LURE
    PDF uses invisible link annotations and points to a direct payload download. Repeated invisible links or lure-like payload names such as document/unlock/verify archives match malware-delivery PDF carriers where the page is only a prompt and the real payload is fetched from the linked URL.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Trojan.IcedID-9983378-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Trojan.IcedID-9983378-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 2 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 152 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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 https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/shaped-aegis-371721.appspot.com/o/YPxRAfCC8Q%2FDocs_REF-1228%23109.zip?alt=media&token=927bc34c-c35d-4888-a1bd-6a73a233a709