Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b61c4b08b0e58d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 3ff9d348ebdcb6734ba89397654d0d7c SHA-1: 4fc8610fdef74ad966feb5ed02723beb9b242bae SHA-256: 9b61c4b08b0e58d212082576b1e1ced57d9510e03ef32954f59ef9173641396d
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1557 Adversary-Controlled Chain of Trust

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure. It also contains an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further suggesting malicious intent.

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
2b448d0a3a1c69f9a06ab0e819d72fb74f91d1dd15186420f2631fffbdbdb812
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).