Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24da9fc8cb182b1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 678546e68ae1a3d8bbe2e0ea3176f2ac SHA-1: 59d9c029de8d3dff466808a58c36adc4eccf7f52 SHA-256: 24da9fc8cb182b1d706f00da72b09db4f022fb082f2a3a4c246704077da60cd3
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure. Additionally, a critical heuristic identified an embedded file, which was extracted as 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin'. This suggests the PDF is acting as a dropper for a secondary malicious payload.

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
29d54112c6e58076afd5050abe5e59e67f2ac46129eb41fb1d417e0723d7fa6f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).