Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3361b464c8fa97c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.3 KB
MD5: db1c5dd0b22d33d3083333b307db3e93 SHA-1: 2f1b56973f02c2a5b2e1b9ce907f8ca64f90fab2 SHA-256: 3361b464c8fa97c88191c312170417c6f4e938e1566f0155167ff00def8daeeb
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for an obfuscated name object and a high ML classifier score, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', strongly suggests this PDF is a dropper or exploit container. The document body was unreadable, but the embedded artifact is the primary indicator of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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_obj0001.bin
e2ce6416ce2aa4211366a83f57d03e7543f3a5189d796e467cee98e213b4785c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8C 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).