PDF malware analysis — malicious · 21f7d7a6210ddfd3

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.7 KB Created: 2012-09-17 23:33:20 +04:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 10.0 (via Acrobat Web Capture 10.0)

MD5: f9afc166d3e965e792205432786a4f67 SHA-1: 6c9cdb1bcd753d026d9d17a4ead90140992d2038 SHA-256: 21f7d7a6210ddfd39284bb1fa53d4c44b72b037fbe3d5759b7012c32c84d1f7a

266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command and Shell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains heavily obfuscated JavaScript that, once deobfuscated, reveals multiple exploit attempts targeting known PDF vulnerabilities. The deobfuscated script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, although the exact mechanism is obscured. The presence of multiple critical CVE firings indicates a sophisticated exploit delivery mechanism.

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 static 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 static 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 static 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 static deobfuscation)
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.
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/

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0019_000.js` `225d61017cceaad6bbb98a1c96314fcc6ce2bb450676036cfe77525555fe124a`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 19 at offset 0x2DF	8900 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 10 long base64-like blob(s).
`deobfuscated.js` `d568263128fdb1db7a376b30834b64ee26a9274696e672e3b3b2dc130f385986`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	24631 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 15 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 11 long base64-like blob(s).
`icc_00_off00002c64.icc` `653b586c4707574ffcd648ba35494daed2c76ceafcf4c07d315ed961b1dc347f`	pdf-icc-profile	PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2C64	408 bytes
`icc_01_off00002eff.icc` `2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e`	pdf-icc-profile	PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2EFF	3144 bytes

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