PDF malware analysis — malicious · 013524bc8bf265f9

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB

MD5: a576e219896eb11fb4bb79f5215fe0e0 SHA-1: 58f87fa2cf7e08a692b6c628be90c1eebaf4aa92 SHA-256: 013524bc8bf265f90a4799a74c2ad22e02241f150208c9c17045be6a12f05036

296 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader vulnerabilities related to U3D content (CVE-2009-3459 and CVE-2009-3953). Embedded JavaScript is obfuscated and appears to be a dropper, designed to decode a payload from the annotation subject and execute it. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

Adobe Reader U3D auto-activated 3D annotation — CVE-2009-3459 critical CVE likely CVE_2009_3459_U3D_AUTOACTIVATE

PDF contains a /Subtype /3D annotation that is configured to auto-activate on page view (/3DA <</A /PV /AIS /I>>) alongside a /U3D stream and JavaScript. This is the document shape used by CVE-2009-3459 (Adobe Reader U3D CLODProgressiveMeshDeclaration heap overflow, APSB09-15): the U3D parser runs without any user interaction once the page is rendered, while the accompanying JavaScript prepares a heap-spray to land controlled memory inside the corrupted allocation.
Adobe Reader U3D CLODProgressiveMeshDeclaration exploit critical CVE likely CVE_2009_3953

PDF combines malformed U3D 3D content with JavaScript/action activation. CVE-2009-3953 is an Adobe Reader/Acrobat U3D CLODProgressiveMeshDeclaration array-boundary vulnerability triggered by malformed U3D data in a PDF.
U3D/3D content in PDF — Adobe Reader 3D parser CVE-family indicator high CVE related PDF_U3D_CVE_RELATED

PDF contains U3D (Universal 3D) or 3D annotation content — CVE-2011-2462 and CVE-2009-3953 are critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader's U3D processing that allow arbitrary code execution. U3D content in PDFs is extremely rare in normal documents.
Generic recovered JavaScript exploit stage high PDF_GENERIC_STAGE_RECOVERY

Bounded static stage recovery exposed hidden JavaScript through generic transforms such as null-byte collapse, percent decoding, marker replacement, arithmetic character codes, fromCharCode, numeric arrays, numeric-array minus-key decoders, alphabet-index arrays, /Producer half-difference metadata arrays, hex literals, marker-stripped Base64 literals, custom 6-bit XOR table decoders, or repeated-marker hex carriers. This rule is emitted only when the recovered stage contains exploit-like Acrobat JavaScript or shellcode markers.
Obfuscated multi-stage PDF JavaScript dropper high PDF_JS_OBFUSCATED_DROPPER

PDF JavaScript shows 3 independent signals of exploit-kit-style multi-stage obfuscation: annot_subject_stage, hex_dashed_payload, repeated_pluginschk. This is strongly consistent with pre-2011 Adobe Reader PDF droppers — OpenAction JS reads encoded data from annotation subjects, decodes it through one or more hex / base-N loops, and invokes eval indirectly (method name built one character at a time). The actual CVE is hidden in the final decoded layer and is not visible via static analysis.
JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT

PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS

PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
syncAnnotScan annotation-staging primitive low PDF_FOXIT_SYNCANNOTSCAN

PDF JavaScript calls syncAnnotScan() — a no-op annotation-enumeration primitive used by exploit-kit JavaScript to stage payload reads from annotation /Subject fields before eval(). Not a vulnerable sink itself; rarely seen in legitimate PDFs. (matched in decompressed stream)
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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0005_000.js` `71f6881f7016ac071115207cf6f8d643d210cc9cf8198fe32f636ce385fec006`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0x14F	766 bytes
`generic_stage_recovery_000.js` `07901a728032d0654be19081ccc6641aaf76007322117e89820ec204416dd713`	deobfuscated-js	generic stage recovery split-literal-normalize from JavaScript object 5 at offset 0x14F	763 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `d5c98dab75f1d8fbe9b7be3c0e8fc05749c103789345f6b79003d20be9046008`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1C53	13104 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `ea3c2f767f6725e8f0668e660eb7b739522edfe58182dcd9efd3769a2b7096c6`	deobfuscated-js	nested inline base-23 callee-key decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1C53	5228 bytes
`deobfuscated.js` `027a24befc24e8314af6375d5da336d9df8ec2e0daf23a4e890a37ed8094c04c`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	207806 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`u3d_00_off000041ed.bin` `fb27c6f6ffe2b08a88f79f344ef3cb4f85460ac81a062194b6fd84ab6e48b628`	pdf-3d-stream	PDF U3D 3D stream at offset 0x41ED	28021 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.79, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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