Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79983d230b9e1db9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: b5ab4497d7b24083cd6301f2fa4b337f SHA-1: 6ddc07fdb19a171b29e7873925ac78adc5f66bc5 SHA-256: 79983d230b9e1db92bf885c3ce7e1fbcc2985a1697f116efa956f47dee493eb8
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV with a critical heuristic for obfuscated objects, indicating malicious intent. It also contains an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The XFA form heuristic further suggests a potentially complex or malicious structure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about the 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
13b860d88779be9e2069511c255e6aba8ccf23e376c03288d76a122f4a68e61f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7E 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).