Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48cc9c754e170e57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 23b5422fbc4e5fb03d4a46dadf60eadf SHA-1: 346113b7a0129037176d1ca83a263317f5a9b381 SHA-256: 48cc9c754e170e57832d151d791132aed1a8b40958b6f86f3469d34b4cf15a03
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object, flagged by ClamAV as obfuscated and suspicious. This indicates an attempt to hide a malicious payload within the document. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the second-stage payload. The XFA form suggests a potential for exploiting form-related vulnerabilities.

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
f677d90df5af444a16e2192b3daf6157244ee5220b93874cd5e3eb899ffe83cb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).