Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c0f5cb055140aec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 1844bb6e2188965d986e4257f8a182f0 SHA-1: 775225c94e618b2c1c5cc2112d3abc7982fdff95 SHA-256: 3c0f5cb055140aec71f713e575b08fddb5d5c975216d935939c716b16ad018c5
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including obfuscated object names and an embedded file, as detected by ClamAV. The presence of an embedded file suggests the document is a container for delivering a secondary payload. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the suspicious nature of this document.

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
5bdeec20738cef9377113a0f8cd6bbe7c1bd5174c3c38d1dfea43fc3988c81eb
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).