Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d30912caca44d54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

590.7 KB Created: 2010-03-31 12:55:11 -04:00 Authoring application: Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0.4) (via Adobe PDF Library 9.0)
MD5: 8c84bd011184fd9e59c7e0576f3e8221 SHA-1: 2438fe2e0264f4decb354680e79b0e8bfc660889 SHA-256: 0d30912caca44d54b4838119fb5fbaef3eb13c0c191a0ef88b5caf37d936884c
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

  • Embedded PDF child has suspicious static findings critical PDF_EMBEDDED_CHILD_STATIC_TRIAGE
    PDF 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7228144-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7228144-0
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • Remote GoTo action info PDF_GOTO_REMOTE
    PDF has GoToR/GoToE actions that reference sibling document files — typical of multi-part document bundles
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
cigar_mars_562.pdf
73bb491041abb77bc4566eafdea769c18e984c46f3663ef1410b9fd2d1479a16
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 244 at offset 0x1A9E5 262455 bytes
cigar_mars_562_1.pdf
7e2f61e2f86e38863c6d2e0f65fe328d6aae41411b89212a9299c651205e2ed9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 244 at offset 0x1A9E5 348929 bytes
cigar_mars_562_2.pdf
b8162162e214bf3b7a2e2cc7409165e8a234db88599b01a9b7bab5e81d545a7b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 244 at offset 0x1A9E5 435448 bytes
stream_019_off0001a01e.bin
406d4752b0f71fd5b063d39b2da0f5e4e29cfa6dc391468725eb3953e4ccba56
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1A01E 522021 bytes
objstm_0121_00.bin
138de69268877ecbf855638a5dd9f96c093c36607a45ab9d3c4a774e29cb4bfc
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 121 0 obj (inflated) 1108 bytes
font_00_cff_off0000b46d.bin
38d7d0627d6ef08fdb595be75f8f12752f3381fa7a1441ca8f76a5e76dc6e7b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xB46D 609 bytes
font_01_cff_off0000ba3f.bin
5f3f348279f5218a0f3607c4a8e7c1b2190742072e04b58112191aa6b4235f52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xBA3F 886 bytes
font_02_cff_off0000c1e7.bin
7e5cb310f6cb7822b8a316192e8347738bb3f1d76fe954bdbf17623d2e87f2fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xC1E7 3808 bytes
font_03_cff_off0000d457.bin
99bc093cddfa13f76f619bedeaf723ce24882a341f9686e35da3cad8dbab0a72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xD457 3669 bytes