Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4184b9baf6addf3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: b6b5c021af34784e4e6fced99118ed07 SHA-1: 25e48142e65ac8ca46eff1ac4fbe45d6b578ee12 SHA-256: 4184b9baf6addf3b8456200f04c73d955779599d9d0fbd82d3bf9a6455caae01
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 content and the presence of an embedded file. The ClamAV heuristic 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' strongly suggests malicious obfuscation. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is a primary indicator of a potential secondary payload or exploit.

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
769b0a9ae3165697f901a0252b120735e2544fce4bdfa587e0f3e2df3b463135
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).