Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6cb2c844460b940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: e4e335c0912ad0fdcfc6d39e8e6c549b SHA-1: d01230f39b13199b0b9b7438eb169ff004cb0a6e SHA-256: d6cb2c844460b940f2e94fc7245a9b49ac278944ac131a4360479e17b03bf1b5
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of an embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', strongly suggests this PDF is a dropper or exploit document. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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
fe77f87d2d9a59cb18c90bc8578e2e70cfd494bc02737433a46b818fcab974e5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x86 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).