Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c902ed3fbac9bcca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.05 MB Created: 2010-09-15 22:09:54 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 2.5.000_PHP4 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: eea1422d4a7d924f26d67ea7e0cf5945 SHA-1: 3440cb4c757291b33d1abe13e5c19c0c627c0773 SHA-256: c902ed3fbac9bccad6123a29b597a4295f8a64692fc93c504b926e351dd5fabb
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a hidden HTML iframe, a common technique for redirecting users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Html.Spyware.IMG-7' and the ML classifier output further support malicious intent. The embedded URL 'http://www.codeforum.cn/free/max1.htm' is the primary indicator of compromise, likely leading to a secondary stage of attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9791

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_003_off0000b97b.bin
a5337ef1f5a0dfe4dc8fa6b4f3ef847a53624800b5928a0eeef5b888ceecaabc
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB97B 264072 bytes