Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afdd3af195c171d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

811.9 KB Created: 2010-09-12 21:08:34 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 0dad2ef78b116ebe69e29c6054c7461b SHA-1: d53bd35bf2b773289e96b3ef1d8c263f24103579 SHA-256: afdd3af195c171d0967d3f4e34c433294f3239d56c1dc0507e32fcbf18b55a73
100 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. ClamAV detected this file as Html.Spyware.IMG-7, indicating a known malicious signature. The embedded URL points to a suspicious domain, likely serving as the destination for the iframe. The overall attack pattern suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

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