Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4256a07298d5844d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB
MD5: 47e4d18f1abf0acddb0e711b615d18c1 SHA-1: 4b092a3a1bfc3e9e171c14eb00dd82a0ab0ad312 SHA-256: 4256a07298d5844d05dd8bc1ebdb2acea45efe71c8e100a0ea01d1499a4bd7c3
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information T1055 Process Injection

The PDF file contains a Base64-encoded PE payload, which is a common technique for delivering malware. The heuristic indicates that the payload is decoded and likely injected into a running process using APIs such as VirtualAllocEx, WriteProcessMemory, and CreateRemoteThread. The decoded payload's SHA256 hash is provided as an IOC.

Heuristics 1

  • Base64-encoded Windows executable payload in PDF critical PDF_BASE64_PE_PAYLOAD
    PDF text contains a long base64 blob that decodes to a verified Windows PE executable. This catches payloads hidden after EOF, inside comments, or in plain text outside normal PDF streams.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
base64_pdf_pe_000002fe.exe
cac25a0c85ff0522a7105b86ac53326b6c5a8b9031d9ab76d5f39249c561bd20
embedded-pe PDF raw base64 PE payload at offset 0x2FE 52736 bytes