Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9eab4bf7c51598e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 294c568e71dccb2fe4284c97fc9bd100 SHA-1: 8f403b2bd263a67988e4e530df9fcd68bf6649ac SHA-256: e9eab4bf7c51598eb142839c224b35cc4491db3e5a6f1a81816851e6be7675a3
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier with high confidence and also detected by ClamAV as obfuscated. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form further suggests malicious intent. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is the primary indicator of a potential payload delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
56edffd96ea005e3ecff5dbcf588204cfd2c888d91a8d01ed048689d242886e9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).