Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94aed55f31d7ed9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 1e571af74e8568595a4ebda3c6c21688 SHA-1: f7af981cdf134c2c6fb1b446d9c66dc6a536c05d SHA-256: 94aed55f31d7ed9e948b843838b94e8d7ba5aff62ba753863291d3f0cb8ee480
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, which detected obfuscated objects within the PDF structure. Static analysis also revealed an embedded file, indicating a likely attempt to deliver a secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the lure.

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
b55bfe4aa0bf83f2ec526a1281ca0b979f8cf3e941588d87d616b6740256a6b7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x80 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).