Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85144d8c4df2682d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

793.7 KB Created: 2010-09-19 21:35:32 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 2a97833f8197e62a33f340a0b09c7106 SHA-1: 40a5d1ae1943b325f00898c1223e1e75b8328266 SHA-256: 85144d8c4df2682dda923e9b091e09fb7db54ade40ab3fdd2c4131b44e3c79b9
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a hidden HTML iframe, which is a common technique for redirecting users to malicious websites. The ClamAV heuristic also flags this as Html.Spyware.IMG-7. One embedded URL, http://www.codeforum.cn/free/max1.htm, has an unknown reputation and is likely the target of the iframe. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting further analysis of its behavior.

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_004_off0000cec8.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xCEC8 264072 bytes

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