Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ce2d512861d48c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: f7e8df0bbb7a0f9e4ef2e7d8c8b39cd2 SHA-1: 438fa96222f12596b28561004079770ee9b3086d SHA-256: 8ce2d512861d48c1649cdf99ed35a4ac6f6812a6ff2d0b9240c9ef7ec38ae826
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1557 Adversary-Controlled Chain of Trust

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV due to obfuscated objects and an embedded file. The presence of an embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', strongly suggests an attempt to deliver a secondary payload. The ML classifier's high confidence score further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
0b1b624cc83990906bc2e187aed15d58d7c166b493a9a690624d2de7ff1f6d4b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x56 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).