Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0594429e48e85e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.3 KB
MD5: 2ef297e504c91d8678da6ad33aefa1cd SHA-1: 6aa58b58852564fbce88f2fc01d6ab2e08fc2c32 SHA-256: c0594429e48e85e72890489b98f4b0183eaf4cabcf228673597118ebad25f50e
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including the use of XFA forms and obfuscated objects, as indicated by the ClamAV detection 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject'. The presence of a suspicious extracted artifact, 'stream_000_off0000002d.bin', suggests it may contain or lead to a secondary payload. The differential PDF parser failure also points to potential evasion techniques. Without a document body or script content, the exact delivery mechanism and payload are unclear, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or exploit attempt.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
stream_000_off0000002d.bin
99907a3f391b7c66b6b3aeec353910370016a4a628afbba19125712ee3c03f05
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2D 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).