Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb16ab52691be87b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: e8b5e81410c15aba3c9f0bc40e3164a9 SHA-1: 696d3ab85ba00cd5f3c1dd31bf97631de1b95459 SHA-256: bb16ab52691be87bf5ae8927b5fc7d2573dd8cef6f30fccba1b5ab720d52b8b2
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, for being malicious and obfuscated. An embedded file was also detected, which is a common delivery mechanism for malware. The ML classifier output of 0.999034 indicates a very high likelihood of maliciousness. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is the primary IOC.

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
fdbc38bfdf082ae6647a359b6d16278824efebd9abc95bd86b1a05f9fc0384a8
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).