Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f68aa8b2b5460797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 70408a55be7d06346da6841b236e7a0d SHA-1: 6917234e0a85b12d6d59c907be68136ca33bd053 SHA-256: f68aa8b2b5460797d59158e12246db8594587f041915ce9f9b3bee6ab0398d0d
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1555 Credentials from Password Stores T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV with 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject', indicating a suspicious structure. It also contains an embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its intent. The presence of an embedded file and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely to download and execute further malware.

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
fafdde4aeb9d71dbd48ceb99bad1e5f050e9fd9bdd5a19564e4cffb6bdd4722a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x84 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).