Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a88f0b1ce86d7f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 0fc89b11fe583a6319c37a6ce27acd13 SHA-1: c60042c52ab0e219c76dd66146f95824dcb3e5f6 SHA-256: 9a88f0b1ce86d7f6da978b48fa0350969f5a4d29869840062aebee5231c9a26f
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object, flagged by ClamAV as a suspicious obfuscated name object. This indicates the document is designed to trick the user into opening a malicious embedded file, which is a common delivery mechanism for malware. The embedded file itself is the primary IOC.

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
73b3e51c7cbb79151de2dbe594d2cc8dc4566e93569bb9a3111ebb9e6d89eb2f
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).