Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bd04305ecc50273…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 483a3dd3af5bf3369ec02afdfc318cb1 SHA-1: f2a11d79e1b322a7c5cacf4e28c2f9023d902cc3 SHA-256: 3bd04305ecc502736c5349365c891d631efa413b37db5c1924240dc8388823ba
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded executable artifact, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED' heuristic and the 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' entry. ClamAV also flagged this as 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', suggesting malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting the likelihood of a malicious payload being delivered.

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
46b915493e3fbe4d524f38a0a13a197938db828db1d5775e47b3d1d62e336a9e
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).