Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ca1295e5b432466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.05 MB Created: 2010-05-15 21:21:44 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: f39c64c003f39e4285c4ebd48d3a6bee SHA-1: 5180662d00133a4befda79e209d7509919bdb8f7 SHA-256: 4ca1295e5b4324666cd91cac5b5941c55fb5da0a0ffcb0907d3c872a3065ab14
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a hidden HTML iframe, a common technique for redirecting users to malicious sites. ClamAV detected this file as Html.Spyware.IMG-7, and a machine learning classifier also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URL 'http://www.codeforum.cn/free/max1.htm' is the most suspicious indicator, likely serving as the destination for the exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9791

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
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://www.iec.ch

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000b97b.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB97B 264072 bytes

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