PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1cd8c218041d0462

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.4 KB Created: 2011-72-51 03:25:00 Authoring application: String.fromCharCode

MD5: 124cc35fe60f74519263cc02904b4444 SHA-1: 186582501bb9b07856782c102ba09c46f57e2cbc SHA-256: 1cd8c218041d046261f53e227c4d9b22d8666283e032547e61b96e588cf4b1e1

376 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF document is malicious, leveraging multiple critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript, obfuscated and staged via PDF metadata, is designed to exploit these CVEs. The primary mechanism involves using `String.fromCharCode` and arithmetic operations within the PDF metadata to construct and execute JavaScript, which then likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 10

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)
Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927

PDF 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)
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)
util.printf — CVE-2008-2992 critical CVE exact CVE_2008_2992

PDF 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)
PDF metadata arithmetic JavaScript stager high PDF_INFO_ARITHMETIC_JS_STAGER

PDF 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.
PDF metadata JavaScript eval stager high PDF_METADATA_EVAL_STAGER

PDF JavaScript reads document metadata fields such as title, subject, or producer, decodes character data with parseInt/String.fromCharCode style helpers, and evals the recovered stage. This is a high-signal exploit-kit staging pattern.
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.
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0001_000.js` `3d2bf1eac938ac8af170ca2c968746d781e224807305a7d225d70e7575385079`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 1 at offset 0x6288	519 bytes
`info_arithmetic_stage_000.js` `a8ba0a167bb42035243b9864c68a0a7f6eb7726c191701cc7cd3cb00299b0358`	deobfuscated-js	PDF /Info Title arithmetic JavaScript at offset 0x23	3660 bytes
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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