PDF malware analysis — malicious · 099027abd8de42cf

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB

MD5: 44f1339ea16d2afdc0906cb19e4af2e4 SHA-1: 8d6c545f9b65b4af5e905dbf64b8c4f899861dbc SHA-256: 099027abd8de42cf44f727310e55f4a5b8f3fa1b7ea3eac8c525928b8f356bed

150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript that exploits CVE-2009-4324 to download a payload from the URL http://gwraddkkda.in/and/post.php?e=8&&. The JavaScript is heavily obfuscated but appears to be responsible for initiating the download and execution of the second-stage malware. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

media.newPlayer — CVE-2009-4324 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_4324

PDF JavaScript calls media.newPlayer — CVE-2009-4324 is a use-after-free in Adobe Reader's multimedia plugin triggered by media.newPlayer(). Actively exploited as a zero-day in December 2009. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
PDF JavaScript shellcode contains an embedded download URL high PDF_JS_SHELLCODE_DOWNLOAD_URL

Decoded PDF JavaScript shellcode contains a hardcoded http(s) URL stored as little-endian %uXXXX Unicode escapes. Reader exploit shellcode embeds the second-stage fetch URL this way and pulls it down with a urlmon/URLDownloadToFile-style download-and-execute (commodity downloader behaviour rather than a specific Acrobat CVE).
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.
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.
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://gwraddkkda.in/and/post.php?e=8&&

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0008_000.js` `35703a010f0e36622858828fc44de0b51bef2fe5d9a5df28c1ae37c5e59228be`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x1E7	2205 bytes
`javascript_obj0008_001.js` `af195160aa10df936f8287fa90d5033b4f32ca6e9b98e6b482ff3f572f27920e`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x209	43673 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `e25eb9dea927fc4a67324232040e7bccd1874be12a367fce24d0ca6ae7a3286e`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0xAB8	2744 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `42025b552c7960b53abcd8cd732b01c8d109eccfdfefc352b9826c4d5807d414`	deobfuscated-js	cross-stage annotation API aliases at offset 0x1E7	81 bytes

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