Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9609e3ad0e077c33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 9c16853f4bb86933d9c4f248e3ced493 SHA-1: 1a9a5c5ee44d77572b361201fba3479a0edd6844 SHA-256: 9609e3ad0e077c33a95a86b4d95d52952bb87dcdfc633938f51feebc5d6b1003
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 a potential delivery mechanism for further malicious payloads. The XFA form and obfuscated object names further support the classification as suspicious.

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
5650b1eb101953757a5a7c44a92d7a6acd6621e5f8a2dacccec970ad9cee1eba
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x84 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).