Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f552f80becbc6144…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 8d622e360dae358a26c70496d0eaecb2 SHA-1: de477589ca834ab738f53042b6a9212d94b471d0 SHA-256: f552f80becbc614495999a7fa890723a7ab6494cb6aca875a2ee1e53fb563222
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded content, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED heuristic and the presence of an embedded artifact. ClamAV detected this file as Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the payload. The XFA form heuristic may indicate a method used to trigger the exploit.

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
e860fcc42dd0cb8d6fba21cc6dbfbf50f5f86d2d072ebcf927ffb932baa11823
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7A 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).