Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c29c80ea4b923ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.4 KB Created: 2012-08-04 17:40:47
MD5: e243e82044c8b06d736b8677067b4e78 SHA-1: 017020b35fb5772d24303987fd74bd95282b0b78 SHA-256: c29c80ea4b923ca8092a49e1e3085d51165d915baf51b940f5204c0d82cd311c
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded file, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED heuristic. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, and a PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic suggests an embedded script is present. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0011.bin' is likely the malicious payload. The document body text is heavily obfuscated and appears to be corrupted or intentionally unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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_obj0011.bin
c97d8e70c3c4fc9c34b2face5deeeb60e7edfaa09b45ba44cd70db8991089bac
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0xB97 6934 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).