Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4c315efd49de15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 3a33b25cdfbdba974005154f3ef17393 SHA-1: 297a1a2d1728d8a56c666831fe0ed6d6d963a714 SHA-256: d4c315efd49de15c94208d552a08056dd7144655f55ef4ced3a350fbda7ad5ab
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including the presence of an XFA form and detection by ClamAV as an obfuscated object. The differential parser failure suggests attempts to hide malicious content. The embedded artifact 'stream_000_off00000048.bin' is highly suspicious and likely contains the malicious payload. The overall pattern suggests a document designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities for initial access.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
stream_000_off00000048.bin
532e3a506cb17ce07a844c2b1888318acd090fb1cf9dd52e9c781610875bca4b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x48 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).