Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6c9cbda39f8985c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 9f2469d196a5efba84f5ede62b451db7 SHA-1: 57fd56e40d681833dc26abf49c4ebdb792a9c743 SHA-256: c6c9cbda39f8985c6ab4244852f8fafcf363d13e3086af4d775d5e6daa175ccf
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits critical heuristic firings indicating obfuscation and the presence of an embedded file. The embedded artifact, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is highly suspicious and likely contains the secondary payload. The XFA form and obfuscated object names further suggest malicious intent. The document body itself is unreadable, but the combination of these factors strongly points to a delivery mechanism for malware.

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
b0881ff6c3904bcd4faa6990b3305e31277a46895b0ea2ba5035cbbe32b2c7e3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x86 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).