Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98cd4f01135cb76a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 1816eadd1fa6ee66278e8af3c53ae0fc SHA-1: 51357be7bdcba805a4bf15545168b2241dc21b20 SHA-256: 98cd4f01135cb76acbd7cc9a11870070085f17bba8f26747e1a5265de8c9f4ad
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 indicated by the ClamAV detection and static triage findings. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files are common techniques for delivering malware via PDF documents.

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
c038276bacc89fabaa0999267e16c14587d9deb06f4c84cb5feedb4641db520b
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).