MALICIOUS
554
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that exploits multiple known vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, including CVE-2009-4324, CVE-2009-0927, CVE-2007-5659, and CVE-2008-2992. The deobfuscated JavaScript appears to be a stager that downloads and executes a second-stage payload from a remote location, indicated by the external URI http://www.rost.ru/. The use of multiple CVEs suggests a sophisticated exploit kit.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9637
Heuristics 15
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media.newPlayer — CVE-2009-4324 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_4324PDF 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)
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Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927PDF JavaScript calls Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by Collab.getIcon() with a crafted argument. Allows arbitrary code execution. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
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Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 critical CVE exact CVE_2007_5659PDF 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)
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util.printf — CVE-2008-2992 critical CVE exact CVE_2008_2992PDF JavaScript calls util.printf() — CVE-2008-2992 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by a long format-specifier argument. Widely exploited in the wild after disclosure. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
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Pidief-style multi-CVE JavaScript dispatcher critical CVE likely PDF_PIDIEF_MULTI_CVE_DISPATCHA single JavaScript body branches on app.viewerVersion and invokes two or more of the canonical Reader sinks (Collab.collectEmailInfo, Collab.getIcon, util.printf with a field-width format string). This is the 2009-2010 Pidief.J multi-exploit landing template: a per-version dispatcher that fires the matching CVE chain for whichever Reader version opens the file.
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PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTERPDF 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.
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Multi-CVE Adobe Reader JavaScript exploit kit critical PDF_ADOBE_READER_MULTI_CVE_JS_KITOne recovered JavaScript stage contains multiple version-gated Adobe Reader exploit branches. This is stronger evidence than independent API keywords: the PDF is selecting old Reader vulnerabilities by viewer version and running heap-sprayed Acrobat JavaScript exploit paths.
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eval() call high PDF_EVALeval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
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PDF metadata arithmetic JavaScript stager high PDF_INFO_ARITHMETIC_JS_STAGERPDF metadata hides JavaScript as arithmetic character-code tokens inside document information fields, then a launcher rebuilds it with String.fromCharCode and eval. The decoder is gated on metadata access from the launcher, a large arithmetic token table, and recovered exploit-like JavaScript.
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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Embedded JS stream low PDF_JSPDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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External URI info PDF_URIPDF contains an external URL action
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Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTALThe 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.
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.rost.ru/
- http://www.rost.ru/)/S/URI
- http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
- http://www.iec.ch
Extracted artifacts 11
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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javascript_obj0001_000.jse9f8520b2614a4299523420a3390780383e9cbfc5e8e4e1f884f25b6469fc9cf |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 1 at offset 0x61FE | 535 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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info_arithmetic_stage_000.jsa00a04a1e2285b25cd06313045968c8eb6f19c8f88d5d2a4e6c1ccd825bf95d5 |
deobfuscated-js | PDF /Info Producer q-arithmetic JavaScript at offset 0x23 | 3636 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 11 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
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icc_00_off000672c6.icc2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e |
pdf-icc-profile | PDF ICC profile at offset 0x672C6 | 3144 bytes |
font_00_cff_off00007373.binc3a311fe930661a0eade86ee513ddcc0cfd870820747be9c7509093dd9069ae4 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x7373 | 3135 bytes |
font_01_cff_off0002e126.bin0feb8e7ca671e1cf74c55e74e2ab5bed9f2b6929239df8f260874d7fa304d717 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x2E126 | 2607 bytes |
font_02_sfnt_off00044f6e.bin07a5fc18190a243bfec76fde3ee0f68270e26a20db217db1263fa9d0b41387b3 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x44F6E | 16424 bytes |
font_03_sfnt_off00046d43.binf2c9081d6bc84120c777283d219aba6ae22c2d0f09b3a115d46ce22be184b83c |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46D43 | 28204 bytes |
font_04_sfnt_off0004b2d7.bin56cdb6128da1bbedb9463c05ac0a9a111566d0953b27334d10697fc1fa71e7cf |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B2D7 | 24316 bytes |
font_05_sfnt_off00051f37.binc2df0c1f4f6457c1006fe80d231541019e588d3c33dc0f25c227f0265aa55540 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51F37 | 20972 bytes |
font_06_sfnt_off0005e2f9.binde5e1c7c4ccfcbf25784cc0a650999549033a95628e0cc21391282b6502d7ac8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E2F9 | 41620 bytes |
font_07_sfnt_off00063fd3.bin80c8e5c57bcb2eddea3fa41ec509a7c6ba464fd0ad619d95f99c9d12596acde8 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63FD3 | 24312 bytes |
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