Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 376bb8398301ff9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 37904f77d94541a8848cb095172ce439 SHA-1: e06f90acb9e57d479b46b75f08c06110bd2f3529 SHA-256: 376bb8398301ff9eab524692cbc1b53a5b2169bc8b8416391168cfc03feaea97
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with a critical heuristic for obfuscated object names, indicating malicious intent. It also contains an embedded file, a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files suggests an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious interpretation.

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
b5b8a641c5879cbbaf45b90bfdfb53e3d0017155d006c11c152a586f2f939463
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x84 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).