Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa19e5929822cdec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

313.1 KB Created: 2010-09-10 21:26:45 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: e258df7816d6459b4db73794b962428f SHA-1: 01af5236efba4ddc9c10ddd751cbe5abb5e323d3 SHA-256: aa19e5929822cdecd5c575aa7247cbb5da8f6b5a6de825c7b0e2ab72b0f4505e
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a hidden HTML iframe, a common technique for redirecting users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URL points to an unknown domain, which is highly suspicious. The PDF structure and heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit a vulnerability or lure the user to a compromised site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9751

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_002_off0000b76c.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB76C 264072 bytes