Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f32be4d0ef0bd4a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: e337ba90b042bd85bbb4efa86bd9e225 SHA-1: 01a08980f1f6639aa66179ca4c0ed607d4aab68b SHA-256: f32be4d0ef0bd4a8d55067d202c9f34f0472c04bc12cbe3b2b13076e0eca305d
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically noting an obfuscated name object and an embedded file. The presence of an embedded file (embedded_file_obj0001.bin) strongly suggests an attempt to deliver a secondary payload. The XFA form usage is also a common technique in malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
ea72ae9749e7e59883efe8fe7eddc7853cd212a1037736bc7cb7cc5aa2141560
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x78 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).