Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae758e06ec4acd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 1a568fea41bb2b9ce5be7fee29359d57 SHA-1: 4554ca1f50b0404f8ddbaa29f5fb801831b08b38 SHA-256: cae758e06ec4acd11f9e02c147be5f9a6fbaab292c452289d6f2626b6cfec355
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent through obfuscation and the presence of an embedded file, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics. The 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' detection by ClamAV further supports this. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely a secondary payload. The differential parser failure suggests deliberate attempts to hinder analysis.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
ff68f975e288e0d52a2125b1343f7d49c4c34af43bc0f6e8bb7eb90b3f13350c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x56 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).