Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d57a6898544c87b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: d1bad31566ccd3e17b490ef3b765aa2a SHA-1: 5b1e23ce0976ababba3e41d35c17d5650d98bf1f SHA-256: d57a6898544c87b2291f7bf7a2566a3b2c319d2201748de6b0fef6f0b4bf98cf
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating malicious intent. It also contains an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting the malicious nature of the file. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is the primary IOC.

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
38dc08e1dbdf8e0edec0a5afe6949f5cddd559e8378eabe75b943b366c08107d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x8C 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).