Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae88c585d153bd49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 27fa1a548f9093da746e17cf31ace67a SHA-1: 193a788dd9e00009b9ba2f244e28975074baf932 SHA-256: ae88c585d153bd49531981d731ad408633a062ded6f8a0d4d1004d18b4cb8602
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including obfuscated objects and an embedded binary file, as indicated by the ClamAV detection and static triage findings. The presence of an embedded file suggests a potential delivery mechanism for further malicious activity. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting the malicious nature.

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
b12c5ffb937218e53c167f587076a1bd5949a8d4e4fdc0ae17f3272b9e092cad
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).