Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5341b44127fb1c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 004b39711ca3a9992c7812412badb4d1 SHA-1: 387026202139af2d08e0a6e924e6a12c6db8e523 SHA-256: a5341b44127fb1c23428131e746f0538901f4a120c08d67daa382e7e498c4ab7
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting an exploit. The presence of an embedded file further supports the likelihood of a malicious payload delivery. The ML classifier output of 0.999034 indicates a very high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21640 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-21640
  • 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
9e73185d2d9ee9e560ca7ed4fbcbefd2cab885f2493a2cd953db6dba50bcb9ab
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8C 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).