Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f389b1ad57513d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 5e989eece6aa4b0dc18a6b42cab57ace SHA-1: 6d38352bdb3654589335b9135c50a6f3f9e6c12b SHA-256: 1f389b1ad57513d81f6c243bf49c270acfe0dc0d9d7b49b437ace8e9511ae272
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1557 Adversary-Controlled Active Content

The PDF file was flagged as malicious due to an embedded file and obfuscated object names. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is suspicious and likely contains a secondary payload. The XFA form suggests a potential for active content execution.

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
01848a4d510311e0e2548a44495d1cbe5ffc9194c8eca09e977e1058dff645d1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8C 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).