Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ba505198203b7ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

197.0 KB Created: 2010-03-10 10:00:33 +08:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 (via Bullzip PDF Printer / www.bullzip.com / Freeware Edition (not registered))
MD5: c90609b55689703531c1316c119a0d3e SHA-1: c333b2836b39054e0b9e45a3c8572b198bd71a3c SHA-256: 0ba505198203b7eeabd49c0f75ab7bc0f69bf62f3cb52c45a156f94cea2c88a9
290 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript that exploits CVE-2009-4324 via the media.newPlayer API. This technique is commonly used to download and execute further malicious content. The presence of multiple obfuscated JavaScript streams and a secondary embedded PDF further indicates malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8387

Heuristics 9

  • 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 exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000063a.js
ec2119df85e590d390c6b4323644e3f0acd58e50313801d0b5eb1957b7e45332
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x63A 2660 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74
deobfuscated-js string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x63A 126 bytes
objstm_0023_00.bin
e8bfe65c34a535b0837ce7c541e45b42ab61e1ff13de05788daf7770f9a1ec0e
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 23 0 obj (inflated) 274 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00014d3f.bin
e6d34ea5df960e7f25b56d219e232b067c4a2e992dbc8f011aea0444de0a991b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D3F 239192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0002bbb4.bin
51f1bd9423cd723c587f4887ef911151884a1423f8e3bf9ae43ee102ccdfcea7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2BBB4 84540 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off000093fb.pdf
707c8684c9f284dfd83203c5e3f7ab3476dc011b55d4ba5016643337146b0399
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x93FB 163894 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0002fc44.pdf
0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x2FC44 6125 bytes