Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d58879279772a2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 14621dbb02ab40f0949489b9b5b5519e SHA-1: 8d8c1df579f42a29a6cdf7aa6f4fd6e74af3ddbc SHA-256: 3d58879279772a2b9dadcc896e31d028ecd3315e1b6a20ad10334a4fc9d18bbb
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.003 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. An embedded file was also detected, suggesting a multi-stage attack. The document body contained obfuscated content, further supporting the malicious nature. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging PDF vulnerabilities to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
b27063c98b12d3367a8299e01a1ff86f1c1c3c04de432efb9f5d1518c86cfd59
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x72 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).