Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5a92a08285d51d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: c6abe6f04834d3a8b91281229087126b SHA-1: f005f51bdf2ea365d690bfb8adb1b0bb97fb5f8b SHA-256: 8e5a92a08285d51d8f2c66f2cf9db3ddceee1b62a04efe54b8f293a3400b6ed0
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded object, flagged by ClamAV as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, indicating obfuscation and malicious intent. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the payload. The XFA form suggests a potential for script execution within the PDF.

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
8217b611f2f61809890382d8659f8b2d1ae3f4d8d17c7730a0a7efbd19637a6d
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).