Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea6b5419fe837ffd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 2200ff96da1a98efeab63e3d6417c089 SHA-1: 12d1203048583cbf2ffedc77ab3ec3c0bc31913a SHA-256: ea6b5419fe837ffd8b8a9ee18fa7d83fd1f4b3c077aa1d8df4272c61457e3e24
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for obfuscated objects and an ML classifier indicating high maliciousness. The PDF contains an embedded file, suggesting it's a dropper or exploit document. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to execute a secondary payload.

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
b3828d6cea0d6e1d5a380d702706ce3532c9f93acbd26eb816d1bfd10af49a91
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).