Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee0a5c461475f107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB
MD5: ac3f4eef945ddc1e73bb1aa27541403f SHA-1: b809cb0e7224bcfc8528e87517b47478776b0da9 SHA-256: ee0a5c461475f107be3da67c26e6af5df0e230adcee3e686f7953c0ce626979c
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV due to an obfuscated object name. It also contains an embedded file, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for user interaction but rather to trigger an exploit. The presence of an embedded file and the obfuscation strongly indicate an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities and download further 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
07a673f527a744bdd77bd4c26c8df114a13bde1ec4e21fb4b0b62242518e2700
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x86 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).