MALICIOUS
162
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, identifying it as a dropper. It contains embedded files and a remote GoTo action, suggesting it's designed to execute further malicious code or redirect the user. The presence of embedded PDF children and suspicious static findings strongly indicates a multi-stage attack.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8662
Heuristics 5
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Embedded PDF child has suspicious static findings critical PDF_EMBEDDED_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGEPDF contains an embedded PDF stream whose extracted child matches suspicious or malicious PDF heuristics. Wrapper PDFs are commonly used to hide the actual exploit or lure payload from scanners that do not recursively inspect attachments.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7228144-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7228144-0
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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Remote GoTo action info PDF_GOTO_REMOTEPDF has GoToR/GoToE actions that reference sibling document files — typical of multi-part document bundles
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.URL http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g/img/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ManifestItem#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/InDesign/private
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/t/pg/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/Dimensions#
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g/
Extracted artifacts 9
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
cigar_mars_562.pdf73bb491041abb77bc4566eafdea769c18e984c46f3663ef1410b9fd2d1479a16 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 244 at offset 0x1A9E5 | 262455 bytes |
cigar_mars_562_1.pdf7e2f61e2f86e38863c6d2e0f65fe328d6aae41411b89212a9299c651205e2ed9 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 244 at offset 0x1A9E5 | 348929 bytes |
cigar_mars_562_2.pdfb8162162e214bf3b7a2e2cc7409165e8a234db88599b01a9b7bab5e81d545a7b |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 244 at offset 0x1A9E5 | 435448 bytes |
stream_019_off0001a01e.bin406d4752b0f71fd5b063d39b2da0f5e4e29cfa6dc391468725eb3953e4ccba56 |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1A01E | 522021 bytes |
objstm_0121_00.bin138de69268877ecbf855638a5dd9f96c093c36607a45ab9d3c4a774e29cb4bfc |
pdf-objstm-decoded | PDF /ObjStm 121 0 obj (inflated) | 1108 bytes |
font_00_cff_off0000b46d.bin38d7d0627d6ef08fdb595be75f8f12752f3381fa7a1441ca8f76a5e76dc6e7b9 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xB46D | 609 bytes |
font_01_cff_off0000ba3f.bin5f3f348279f5218a0f3607c4a8e7c1b2190742072e04b58112191aa6b4235f52 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xBA3F | 886 bytes |
font_02_cff_off0000c1e7.bin7e5cb310f6cb7822b8a316192e8347738bb3f1d76fe954bdbf17623d2e87f2fb |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xC1E7 | 3808 bytes |
font_03_cff_off0000d457.bin99bc093cddfa13f76f619bedeaf723ce24882a341f9686e35da3cad8dbab0a72 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xD457 | 3669 bytes |
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