Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 672948c65c31a8a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

575.6 KB Created: 2010-09-13 21:55:27 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 17b85cb7c245b0ab0115c2c786c62f8b SHA-1: bef7d2870ca6c38e125480e4841b675e77f389d6 SHA-256: 672948c65c31a8a5c0bee73ac3cc1ec9cf8196e76c4e859719067589ba2ac4f5
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a hidden iframe, a common technique for redirecting users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no specific script was extracted, the presence of a hidden iframe suggests an attempt to download or redirect to a second-stage payload.

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
    • 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://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://www.iec.ch
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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