Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceb2242268adf65b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 81ca8a3dd888f26f8fb5be18326c95fc SHA-1: 4919e8fc7289fe0537c571de50cf30f07fd7d90f SHA-256: ceb2242268adf65b74375000a94c12164a63d4eed44105c6c98968a4bd31ff82
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure often used to hide malicious content. Additionally, a suspicious embedded file was extracted. These indicators suggest the document is designed to exploit a PDF vulnerability and deliver a secondary payload.

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
927e950fd8751ab7f6e2cf552bad0f60eacc9ce1e73d5687233a62c87936bd05
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).