Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f7e64ec1eb17155…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: fffcdb1adaeadeff9cb644c55b01ba72 SHA-1: eb20d429f36a64579d58c0fd1300537205c64dcc SHA-256: 4f7e64ec1eb17155e9e25fc55b0a2064c3040fb3efefdd115f7498315f6d68c2
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV with a critical heuristic for obfuscated objects. It also contains an embedded file, which is a common delivery mechanism for malware. The ML classifier's high confidence score and the critical ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the execution of the embedded artifact.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
8217b611f2f61809890382d8659f8b2d1ae3f4d8d17c7730a0a7efbd19637a6d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x55 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).