Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f1b0ea9ee0bae4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 0599aa28e2d8e7ca716439f2aa695d43 SHA-1: d4c27bdf93338d822b3b54b67a3cb4601a06e643 SHA-256: 4f1b0ea9ee0bae4d6e9f1c621ca3b08e8a37d74f66b05bce5da0a59998e84364
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 an embedded file, as flagged by ClamAV and static triage. The presence of an embedded file suggests it may be used to deliver a secondary payload. The document body itself is unreadable, further supporting the obfuscation finding.

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
2b5241921e1de0d8f5e023ea5a5acd5b4c8ed1a3cdc785f92e5d2b19acf592c5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x80 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).