Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8debc888f1683f20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 24d6c2ac28df8efea536ff75bfdbdde5 SHA-1: 4adfd8899461541bbe60b583fe5cc5ff4e58e0cc SHA-256: 8debc888f1683f207d74eae40aeccaad5ec9f0b980564c197785cd4b9a848c6f
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious and potentially obfuscated structure. Additionally, a PDF_EMBEDDED heuristic fired, confirming the presence of an embedded file within the document. This embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a secondary stage for malware delivery or exploitation.

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
d5206214d1b658bece0a26c96cd8d2977732dd9cd6c46efe8d2cbd29c9c7664f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x72 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).