Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7ddf00b64cdaede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: ec30a27673e07bf4ea45e48f4015bfb9 SHA-1: c0de21a0d91bd8bba8a7560f40f9b0f10fb5c780 SHA-256: b7ddf00b64cdaedee079ae0620673b5140f99df8c218e2b34623ab84abfbc5ed
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.003 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for an obfuscated name object and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', suggests it's a dropper or downloader. The document body contains heavily obfuscated and unreadable content, further indicating 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
e7340418998f03aa4042c0482e54ca3d6bcfc07fd22744b79fbc1cf8bdf9a1a4
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).