Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d7993b8cfdb9a2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 2b7d5ad27a9a1313c586bab07dc3f386 SHA-1: 1287132ea1cf53ce1fc1d5cb6e0d3a00a5ff8069 SHA-256: 8d7993b8cfdb9a2a02e8c25852a82fbd1b2838783422ffff54d74211fb8d1578
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 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 high maliciousness. The presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', strongly suggests this PDF is a dropper or exploit document. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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
27f0adc5965657ee9ef86f2e407c8eb981178b21af7f3922493ae251b5298f82
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).