Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a69932012257a93b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

244.6 KB First seen: 2026-05-11
MD5: dbcbd090e8cc0c9f39ae5b053a734a2b SHA-1: f82c139e054295affeb30bac4d6103689a36ce3a SHA-256: a69932012257a93bf87d52103d57b19f61bad181e89bf925e090077255d7fd5f
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicates this PDF is malicious, likely exploiting a known PDF vulnerability. The document body contains obfuscated data rather than user-facing text, further suggesting a malicious payload. No specific family is identifiable from the available evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 2

  • VBScript-style decimal byte array decodes to a PE payload critical PDF_VBS_DECIMAL_ARRAY_PE_PAYLOAD
    PDF comment text contains a VB/VBScript-style decimal byte array, such as c(077),c(090), that decodes to a verified Windows PE executable. The rule is gated on a comment-line Array(c(...)) assignment and a valid MZ/PE header to keep false positives low.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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
decimal_array_pdf_pe_00000229.exe embedded-pe PDF raw comment decimal-array PE payload at offset 0x229 31473 bytes
SHA-256: 5eb44bc47ae0a57e5e451e770789d1bfa6d263af00d169ba3329b749a5011eba
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
actual_type=PE; declared_or_context_type=PDF; filename=decimal_array_pdf_pe_00000229.exe; kind=embedded-pe Carved artifact entropy is 7.90, consistent with packed or encrypted content.