Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ff1b74782b6769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: c72b15e019861c6eede091c3c15421cc SHA-1: 809146fac8415b0829f08528630a4d4fc696102b SHA-256: c8ff1b74782b6769a6be1a86dbaa89808ad3ba4635bf68570d65a0896c6910a1
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including obfuscated objects and an embedded file. The ClamAV heuristic 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' strongly suggests malicious content. The presence of an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', further supports the likelihood of a payload delivery mechanism. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about the 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
233d037e574b0babe1e97f354497ba147878c7d4b65b26606d0c500298048664
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).