Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba55fac94a341596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 4437e1224eb966628fd4b3b4d944c64d SHA-1: ce1472c2473a832015f71d5ff50374fab0c11c97 SHA-256: ba55fac94a34159666d1489b551dba626b32561862df841e59e42aec7b070e37
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact, flagged by ClamAV as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded file suggests an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into opening a malicious attachment.

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
3153ca7bfed8000f8fc56a656845ae85bc60a665150c1f60f7f4557d379c3d10
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x78 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).