Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a448c3554024cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 67ec78c265d1bef55336f4e6d4c8df4b SHA-1: 6ef7b024fb7600e636084f990e122a0a78514c3f SHA-256: 43a448c3554024cca4df82a3a3bf882a8bf74057f9e01c7fd9d455f2c80d8b18
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including obfuscated content and an embedded binary file. The ClamAV detection for 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' strongly suggests malicious code or structure within the PDF. The presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', further supports the likelihood of a malicious payload delivery mechanism.

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
d1b0541674392ed2a9cfa621aced7baa5cabdf5dfd1fff9a9de3bee8a2c22cda
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x88 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).