Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 805b256685600163…

MALICIOUS

PDF

414.4 KB Created: 2010-05-15 20:28:43 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: b850a1dd75ee13b8f2c96062a5dbd11e SHA-1: 218f8d9a45dc0d3401e6f3557860012ee53f4e6e SHA-256: 805b256685600163c62081a057687fb01b505cb8331b4ef0cc262dab0eacd981
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a hidden HTML iframe, a common technique for embedding malicious content or redirecting users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While the document body is unreadable, the presence of an unknown URL suggests a potential command and control or payload delivery mechanism.

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