Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f75a397cebd284f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

235.8 KB Created: 2010-02-19 19:39:51 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: f2f07facebce9d9b7f55ebedd1711596 SHA-1: 3af03684e6094ba02b821a3b0301e80b7bc91683 SHA-256: 8f75a397cebd284ff670406f1e55c7613d00b3539098165c9ce597f73a0a57fe
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a hidden external HTML iframe, a common technique for redirecting users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs point to suspicious domains, likely used for hosting malware or phishing content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the ability to determine specific payload delivery or persistence mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9482

Heuristics 2

  • 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://fuadrenal.com/lib/index.php
    • http://reycross.com/lib/index.php
    • http://odmarco.com/lib/index.php

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000b9ed.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB9ED 264072 bytes