Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1c189e2d48f0fb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: 38b5965396a851b46ee6e2f8c99ea648 SHA-1: 6217bda972f9904028c63cbf603ce92153c05200 SHA-256: e1c189e2d48f0fb4d529b4966868e4d58e9857f88d08fbe5a8148855a5925977
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object, flagged by ClamAV as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, indicating obfuscation and malicious intent. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely a secondary payload. The XFA form suggests a complex document structure often used to hide malicious content.

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
983f2f1086b3e1b7b881fdc9d165aa3c32b089bada38065e376b72612fc28454
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x88 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).