Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d199de8d168e1d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 38beb5f066af117347700a61f2aa4ee7 SHA-1: 6e4ea011674ee6986c7972c170ae67fdd1909b06 SHA-256: d199de8d168e1d433cadc89072757be59ddabf7591db7e82adc4c54a862f2711
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious due to obfuscated objects and an embedded file. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is highly suspicious and likely contains a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded file strongly suggests an attempt to deliver malware via a document attachment.

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
7f02c83dea79609f14e77d5e7fbd2a4c903948e21b18dd7ae562ce854718c6d5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).