Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22cfa29404d6581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

811.9 KB Created: 2010-09-19 21:52:36 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: db52926a0cd180b59e57f40e8cbba689 SHA-1: b09bc99d50c26a9e5f4cc3825d55d0e8180cb81f SHA-256: a22cfa29404d65814eb63fc817cb902131ab53d4aa8b6e9946383d19907bf033
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a hidden HTML iframe pointing to an external URL, indicating an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site. ClamAV detected this file as Html.Spyware.IMG-7, and a machine learning classifier also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of the redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9851

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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000ba7c.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xBA7C 264072 bytes