Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 205e2317d817a6f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 469c58fd142de440bbe7130c14fc3e57 SHA-1: dc83f4172e15da47380e729585a569350c36f311 SHA-256: 205e2317d817a6f79c77acef6036b6bdf8f539299c00cf4ff0700c7899b0bd7e
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded object, flagged by ClamAV as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, indicating a suspicious structure. The presence of an embedded file suggests an attempt to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the user-facing lure.

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
58ad2011cb433159c3447a07e9200c53208fc348d7b6a9e97182bf44acc41b9e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x86 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).