Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cf2ef6f790fb8a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

584.0 KB
MD5: b5c90d875424febd51c0b9f8ab257ed0 SHA-1: d1bfef387395b6ee48f460222e227020212393a5 SHA-256: 0cf2ef6f790fb8a917fa9c13315afb0311872dfb656baf599f71021d10266a14
510 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader vulnerabilities, specifically CVE-2009-3459 and CVE-2007-5659. Embedded JavaScript is used to download a second-stage executable from the URL http://mcduimqmoxk.com/nte/prox.exe/yH9ad7bd4fV0100f060006R87006a76102Td6c4d8bc203l000c. The obfuscated JavaScript and U3D content further support the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7722

Heuristics 13

  • 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.
  • Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 critical CVE exact CVE_2007_5659
    PDF JavaScript calls Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 is a buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by a long argument or heap-sprayed message field passed to Collab.collectEmailInfo(). Part of a series of Acrobat JS API exploits. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
  • 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.
  • Adobe Reader APSB09-15 patch-range version gate (CVE-2009-3459) high CVE likely PDF_JS_ADOBE_APSB09_15_PATCH_GATE
    PDF JavaScript gates the exploit payload on an Adobe Reader version range that exactly matches the APSB09-15 patch boundary (< 9.2, < 8.1.7, < 7.1.4). That boundary fingerprints the CVE-2009-2990 / CVE-2009-3459 U3D parser vulnerabilities — no benign script tests all three Reader version-points together.
  • Adobe Reader APSB08-13 patch-range version gate (CVE-2007-5659) high CVE likely PDF_JS_ADOBE_APSB08_13_PATCH_GATE
    PDF JavaScript gates the exploit payload on (>= 8 && < 8.1.1) OR (< 7.1) — the Reader 7.0.x / 8.0–8.1.1 window patched by Adobe APSB08-13 for the CVE-2007-5659 Collab.collectEmailInfo buffer overflow. Only kits that target that exact bug check both of those patch points; benign scripts do not.
  • Annotation subject percent-decoding eval stager critical PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER
    OpenAction JavaScript forces annotation enumeration, reads an annotation /Subject payload with getAnnots(), rewrites marker bytes into percent escapes, decodes it with unescape(), and dispatches it through eval. This is a high-confidence exploit-kit staging pattern. It is intentionally not mapped to CVE-2009-1492 unless getAnnots() itself carries the crafted integer or long argument shape for that vulnerability.
  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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://mcduimqmoxk.com/nte/prox.exe/yH9ad7bd4fV0100f060006R87006a76102Td6c4d8bc203l000c
    • http://www.iec.ch
    • https://www.verisign.com/repository/RPA0
    • https://www.verisign.com/repository/CPS��
    • https://www.verisign.com
    • https://www.verisign.com/repository/verisignlogo.gif0�
    • https://www.verisign.com/CPS
    • https://www.verisign.com/repository/CPS
    • http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/0
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa
    • http://ocsp.verisign.com/ocsp/status0
    • https://www.verisign.com/rpa0
    • http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CodeSignPCA.crl0
    • http://www.microsoft.com/typography
    • https://www.verisign.com/repository/verisignlogo.gif0��
    • https://www.verisign.com/CPS0b

Extracted artifacts 12

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0031_000.js
068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 31 at offset 0x2C8E1 373 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
bd3f7cca0a7a96075893165df58ddfbaf5b77485e7579a5a51beb88b7915246d
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x28063 13024 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
4f39c03cbf9838cc4f2560d387019df27f4b9a84a8d50633f3158a912b5fde13
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x28063 5403 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
icc_00_off0007d48f.icc
2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e
pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0x7D48F 3144 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00000e5a.bin
afeb9e1e920aae3aca3f295f1bbccba46b16423dac14b1b5fde4b661de9198cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A 46764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008483.bin
5f96e1e90c4ef56487c91d02c05141dca0967f8e2bbd5d67be6c4f381f0afa79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8483 62160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b6b.bin
d375c22ace40f0b973d7308d85023b2e0e49d40dc51da45552d116868346475e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6B 37232 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000166cd.bin
b661c2e877dd6b7625208ae148d736aedb24eda2d4f014262cbb7f958f538ca0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166CD 71216 bytes
font_11_sfnt_off0006da75.bin
8b62f203a4ab5c2ac76368029c584b4fa12fffc17f3b6e4e43a9997416807d21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA75 11156 bytes
font_12_sfnt_off00072d28.bin
6cf6df6beee88aa138f821122d0c1969b348cebe09cafe5b5f6a7eb8c27107a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72D28 32640 bytes
font_13_sfnt_off00087578.bin
95592346b00d039686aa3d7e22eae3d52b011e7e842a5c123f73e89ea766cd35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87578 22628 bytes
u3d_00_off000214e6.bin
48816569ab4f370009a917ef6429edbe09e4dfe8a63b00a0a0f75a904c62ba94
pdf-3d-stream PDF U3D 3D stream at offset 0x214E6 27449 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.