Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb3b0a9cd4dd20bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: d23375a9ed337b22afd6bbf371c03beb SHA-1: e496b779ccae99dd4ae2de8f6f7ea134bfcb46c3 SHA-256: fb3b0a9cd4dd20bb45692e0a7dbce4fb700f510ff74cec9f2dbb24d821abb34c
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of malicious intent, including obfuscated object names and an embedded file, as detected by ClamAV. The presence of an embedded file suggests the document is a container for delivering additional malicious content. The document body itself is heavily garbled, further supporting the obfuscation finding.

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
e536d3ec3170d7b477ae97b9e456d1a0ef98c441e5af3b6954a0cb4d22506fc7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x6E 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).