Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6b8c22624afa6b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 775636b2cce1bc39cae8098d9b12ca14 SHA-1: 9557952ba1f09eb478a9574fdffaa192cac7fcb7 SHA-256: c6b8c22624afa6b8c0b2c75b05f89ed31baa7fdd64536392036c3e8e641ee056
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1555 Credentials from Password Stores T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure. Furthermore, it 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, providing no direct clues to the user-facing lure.

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
de525d0126be9bed94607e99b834efbe900f92b8c655b92824c00354ee3142f3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).