Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b80ddd71f7436bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 401dae0a2796392493fabec694538ee2 SHA-1: cbade7c0e0c744e2871d4ca13f4934c892d719f2 SHA-256: 3b80ddd71f7436bb2a5f083fe266ca4b2f6b3808dde5e4e89c2d0f7b920dd280
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object, flagged by ClamAV as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, indicating malicious intent. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is the primary artifact of interest. The presence of an embedded file within a PDF is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads.

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
86624ea3653ebe3c5310155b86fa5f8b60fa59be1eb391ec5c9f589b16dd92b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).