Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d0b025400e520cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 1062bef5e94236b25840345188fd1ff2 SHA-1: 311da3f746215aa9f752fd99098f028abcbff570 SHA-256: 4d0b025400e520cdf05f4db3140f6dd6a4f9976138d553a241d7c89fc6ac3128
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure. Furthermore, a PDF_EMBEDDED heuristic indicates the presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', which is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further clues about the specific 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
067de157c52d1d990c80241f148f6b7bf3fb808c153ede480b9eff0d834b821d
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).