Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0069f52515c6d2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 554fd58bd222a4f34ca653453b457cd8 SHA-1: ee9c8cd812906f2f2741eeadaf2a419da7a9d360 SHA-256: e0069f52515c6d2b60c5983e7876f7e1dc6c880ea7531e3d929c0f1a2d61b001
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED' heuristic and the presence of an 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' artifact suggest that the document is designed to drop and execute a secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

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
a082305ec198a1b5473ab6c1fe2393e8de46279e8da7e61888009d4b0e1aa34c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x88 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).