Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53031142ff82104…

MALICIOUS

PDF

235.8 KB Created: 2010-02-17 19:22:28 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org)) First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 454da0b8495c67ec74d3276eac704341 SHA-1: bb86e5e0c88ea9dbd2a0b8cbfc945541ee47c94a SHA-256: a53031142ff82104a5d6bca96c584c725613d9a426ba633ab0f6d4571c8138b4
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating a hidden external HTML iframe, suggesting an attempt to redirect the user. It also embeds multiple URLs that are likely malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample, limiting the ability to determine the exact payload or persistence mechanisms. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

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 In PDF document text
    • http://reycross.com/lib/index.phpIn PDF document text
    • http://odmarco.com/lib/index.phpIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off0000049b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x49B 91432 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0765156a7522e1b20f16cb911bf3a03d568d8ee9f5cab18481d8449fa81040
stream_002_off0000b9ed.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB9ED 264072 bytes
SHA-256: a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc