Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ee85f071ccc3af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

414.4 KB Created: 2010-05-18 20:30:26 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: d6503cf620bbcd2aaff4b2c991f42aaa SHA-1: 8f1aeff7973a9a2fa0f80dfa802cfc75a8517796 SHA-256: 6ee85f071ccc3af62ec8ddc7ad5b638a92119c8dfb737e23150985325d452da1
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a hidden HTML iframe, a common technique for embedding malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URL to 'www.codeforum.cn/free/max1.htm' is suspicious and likely serves as a lure or download source for a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9854

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
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000b77b.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB77B 264072 bytes

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