Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 292df6c0deeed93c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.2 KB Created: 2010-03-22 16:24:26 +08:00 Authoring application: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 (via Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)) First seen: 2026-05-10
MD5: 211b644de9ff2610f92f01a33fdc635b SHA-1: 5f811ba544e8fc1b948cc89e8dd1bc240131baaa SHA-256: 292df6c0deeed93c6f24a8df62b9e9bc7db76bb3fbc803cce0c3d765be23de52
290 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability, specifically targeting the media.newPlayer API. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of obfuscated JavaScript and a secondary embedded PDF further supports this attack vector. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 8

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • JavaScript action low 2 related findings 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)
  • 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.
    Matched line in script
    var sc =  unescape(urpl("%Zc8d9%Z74d9%Zf424%Zeeba%Zdeec%Z29dc%Z5fc9%Z37b1%Z5731%Z8314%Z1001%Z243c%Z4207%Zdcde%Z55ee%Zdcda%Zecee%Zb881%Zdc4f%Zdcde%Z67ee%Zd09e%Z9c65%Z71c2%Z8465%Z8dd6%Z9965%Z57e2%Zc29a%Zdfa6%Zba1b%Zaa55%Zefce%Zef2b%Za527%Z719f%Z29ed%Z07ed%Z52e1%Ze4ce%Z981c%Z1dd6%Ze125%Z06dd%Z07ae%Ze72f%Z99f1%Z8239%Zb265%Zdffa%Z8a33%Zd055%Z67a5%Zc080%Z31ed%Zd855%Zef65%Z771b%Z0eb7%Zef62%Z6f35%Zd81d%Zec84%Z238d%Z10b9%Zdbe5%Z1f9b%Z8357%Z7512%Z8e8c%Z9b11%Z23da%Z1099%Z8b21%Z7516%Z9cb4%Zec86%Zdcce%Z13ee% …
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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# In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://www.iec.chIn PDF document text

Related samples 8

Ranked by shared artifacts, heuristics, extracted URLs, CVEs, and signatures.

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Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000063a.js decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x63A 2578 bytes
SHA-256: bdf688e09ec8e974af91608ce2469ead33230ce6c8a836344fd8da5d983c2cb8
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 deobfuscated-js string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x63A 126 bytes
SHA-256: 42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74
Preview script
First 1,000 lines of the extracted script
media.newPlayer(null); /* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA */
objstm_0023_00.bin pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 23 0 obj (inflated) 274 bytes
SHA-256: e8bfe65c34a535b0837ce7c541e45b42ab61e1ff13de05788daf7770f9a1ec0e
icc_00_off0000f469.icc pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0xF469 3144 bytes
SHA-256: 2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e
polyglot_child_pdf_off0000dfd7.pdf polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0xDFD7 53526 bytes
SHA-256: 5ffd3dc6662a455f484be53558a6e5cb6fce743d37e9a9283e57376d39bd76f5
polyglot_child_pdf_off00019900.pdf polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x19900 6125 bytes
SHA-256: 0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8

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