Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 511183a03297ba19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 2a391d46459a754e82619d5a0a743642 SHA-1: 2043b38665048ef827907ebdec8b68c61a41a49b SHA-256: 511183a03297ba199487501db0645fedfbe64696194b681ef074a8ce3e7ed2ae
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV for obfuscated object names, indicating a deliberate attempt to hide malicious content. Static triage also identified a suspicious extracted artifact, specifically a long encoded blob within an embedded file. This strongly suggests the PDF is a dropper designed to deliver a secondary payload, likely contained within the embedded file.

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
48a6a2067a66f10c2bbdd3a39659a0d888c298235a1b68de7bdcbb3c7d2af904
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).