Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3caec194fbf47037…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: a2f7a3eb297d77b19933b332b0ccfe9b SHA-1: 74bbfa9263d8923e52e46e29f7effd81480d204c SHA-256: 3caec194fbf470375cc1f6d1c3d7eb24b5c288b503cbfcd61b6d33d45198519e
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1553.005 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED heuristic and the presence of 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin'. ClamAV also flagged this as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, suggesting malicious intent. The embedded file is the primary indicator of a malicious payload delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the lure.

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
89a69a3bd74a8de2d3d0bd98aee77f84b395bab002651872e71fab442aa7a158
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7C 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).