Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27b12ff0f63789cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 3b47462da96e7b75a11f99e1c6caa386 SHA-1: 63fa193155351035a6f459dab0e9f5c813484132 SHA-256: 27b12ff0f63789cd2603a5020b7860afc910ba5dcdb3ec2b4177f6dd2162a96b
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded file, flagged by ClamAV as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, indicating malicious intent. The presence of an embedded object suggests it may be used to deliver a secondary payload or exploit a vulnerability. The XFA form might also be leveraged for malicious purposes.

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
0ff8a5164b582e132b423a5973ebc48d9a981d662883b7c1efe5470b0475b88c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x80 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).