Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c79d69a3241a233b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: e851eb1714a9b8a3c1f5820b54759625 SHA-1: 2adbebb56e0b8344921d1f43b4caf2d09e4b7de1 SHA-256: c79d69a3241a233b72998220a76096ed7b9bfd6c7705dd1cad07a521aeb99ec6
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier with a high probability of being malicious and by ClamAV for obfuscated objects. The presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', suggests that this PDF is likely a dropper or downloader for a secondary malicious payload. The obfuscation and embedded file are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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
0357be528b00b8c5f27a7ff8e44508d64b329bdbd92edcb9f68a2d02a227ac5e
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).