Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ea117ae9a97ba57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.1 KB
MD5: b1e1b1c267f60c0ff2110ab2ab480d51 SHA-1: 35caea5db608bc7e492d39de5f9c4cdd4715114e SHA-256: 2ea117ae9a97ba570e7b87d57953d8199a04ece3e3d09cdae579714913bc7d83
68 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_EMBEDDED heuristics. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is the primary indicator of a malicious payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
aad11a11644fea5474d4d0350a442305262e6fb905d0d4e42fecb6128364023d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA 12618 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).