Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e0b7df3d33b5d2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 0a4dbd3fbcbd4e73094e18a7fd0ea137 SHA-1: 9eba364a99c885d7aa916e487272fc061ae7adef SHA-256: 4e0b7df3d33b5d2c9e68496ed20fb3b5118c493bcd0212ea0944b89affa8e885
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for an obfuscated object and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. The presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', suggests it's a dropper. The document body is unreadable, but the combination of PDF obfuscation and embedded content strongly indicates a malicious intent to execute 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
01f9ab90a086e3c966ee1be4eed5e27002422d807eeeeab98997d5dfad3f1c33
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).