PDF malware analysis — malicious · 44c298e34e370e09

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB

MD5: eee857c5b29ea5d0a74e4eb73a42a7ef SHA-1: 1a9c7c7e72173244644787300c4d5835cb0920d2 SHA-256: 44c298e34e370e0901518dc1c2f93fe7454c4d371a3209a4df637fe10960aa2a

108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a PDF that has been flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. The presence of an embedded file further suggests a delivery mechanism for a secondary payload. The document body is unreadable, but the combination of PDF obfuscation and embedded content strongly indicates an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into executing malicious content.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `9cf4345faba0c7964fa7a12a43ed4855cc523e6520d50c8a736cfb3b9d76a8ec`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8A	13408 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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