Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfb2f04ceb18cf92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: ecafaece609c9d7ae659cf1df48379a3 SHA-1: 6a8a8fb1b989ea93d641ace14660d9e041dae6a9 SHA-256: bfb2f04ceb18cf92cc94021e50061058be90b733193014578c779bc557661eab
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The obfuscated nature and embedded artifact strongly suggest an attempt to bypass defenses and execute malicious code.

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
4159359fec660f7ae99fdbe6ed8f341ccd21e060b41c5d1bad24df6cbabb1ed4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).