Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a3d499e7b7988e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

235.8 KB Created: 2010-02-15 19:26:12 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org)) First seen: 2026-05-11
MD5: baa4df20eb552b9ba4e035cb6232782a SHA-1: 3f8f6ea15beb1dbac5d995ea976a010e55f6da41 SHA-256: 4a3d499e7b7988e5dddca0b36ff32c65156aef2b6a140836ad23147289cc1829
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating hidden external HTML iframes and embedded URLs. The embedded URLs point to suspicious domains, suggesting a redirection attempt to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the ability to determine further payload delivery or execution details. The primary attack vector appears to be luring the user to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9482

Heuristics 2

  • 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://fuadrenal.com/lib/index.php In PDF document text
    • http://reycross.com/lib/index.phpIn PDF document text
    • http://odmarco.com/lib/index.phpIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off0000049b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x49B 91432 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0765156a7522e1b20f16cb911bf3a03d568d8ee9f5cab18481d8449fa81040
stream_002_off0000b9ed.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB9ED 264072 bytes
SHA-256: a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc

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