Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44c9bc7408941cbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 124d650436854f286023a7a34cc4026f SHA-1: 271cdf84c3b944d228b2cb8e978cd0f650655b70 SHA-256: 44c9bc7408941cbf95e54337b28c3e1be10ce16ed135f9ceae4b680cc4afc6dc
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure. Furthermore, it contains an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about the user-facing 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
d6f368cdcf746382b82145b02c94dfa041778b91d5ff1a9738345c6eca1872df
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).