Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a82dba046e86900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 2dbaf66171bc9107625210c59ca6a7ab SHA-1: c41482050dcd443cfa2aeeae8ede0d9f9ba91a7d SHA-256: 9a82dba046e86900c48228cfee19233a2771a5ad0d136c37ff8c361dbbb9c21a
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 object names and the presence of an embedded file. The ClamAV heuristic 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the secondary payload.

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
417f218f97ccef0c648bd2e5581cb2173d8dd50288d957f59b6bba647db70ecb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).