PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2c9ca01cd0415bb9

MALICIOUS

PDF

767.1 KB Created: 2008-01-05 16:25:50 +01:00 Authoring application: LaTeX with hyperref package (via pdfeTeX-1.21a)

MD5: 14bc66f6d946173d3fd24afcef18fcf8 SHA-1: 5fd931924acaa31026a87c107bfa0f00dfa2d8b2 SHA-256: 2c9ca01cd0415bb9be5df0df7538a0343b3106fcfebbd37b5866cecfcd2c3010

252 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF exploits CVE-2011-2462 and CVE-2009-3459 related to Adobe Reader's U3D parser. The embedded JavaScript performs a heap spray, a common technique used to prepare for shellcode execution. The recovered JavaScript stage indicates a generic exploit stage, likely intended to download and execute a further payload. While specific URLs are marked as benign, the exploit mechanism itself is highly suspicious.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9880

Heuristics 9

Adobe Reader U3D parser exploit with JavaScript heap spray critical CVE likely CVE_2011_2462_U3D_HEAPSPRAY

PDF combines U3D/3D annotation content with JavaScript heap-spray shellcode. Public CVE-2011-2462 exploit chains use a crafted U3D stream and JavaScript heap spray to control memory during Adobe Reader's U3D parser corruption.
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.
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.
Generic recovered JavaScript exploit stage high PDF_GENERIC_STAGE_RECOVERY

Bounded static stage recovery exposed hidden JavaScript through generic transforms such as null-byte collapse, percent decoding, marker replacement, arithmetic character codes, fromCharCode, numeric arrays, numeric-array minus-key decoders, alphabet-index arrays, /Producer half-difference metadata arrays, hex literals, marker-stripped Base64 literals, custom 6-bit XOR table decoders, or repeated-marker hex carriers. This rule is emitted only when the recovered stage contains exploit-like Acrobat JavaScript or shellcode markers.
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.
External URI info PDF_URI

PDF contains an external URL action
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://vcg.isti.cnr.it)/S/URI/Type/Action
- http://meshlab.sourceforge.net)/S/URI/Type/Action
- http://vcg.isti.cnr.it
- http://meshlab.sourceforge.net
- 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/pdf/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0015_000.js` `c462ec74d8c2459910c6a085a8c2c3f0102453a7d1ea782be8a1fca688b8db61`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 15 at offset 0x665	2623 bytes
`stream_010_off00094701.bin` `b1f937b9541d599e1c6000c4c47f7f3f21a4d9b0e1051c8a5580e07bc6106afd`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x94701	177792 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.72, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`generic_stage_recovery_000.js` `afea617eeca0e3e97e726212f1912d98e1bbc8c3a60ce52d5a6c5ce64f34beca`	deobfuscated-js	generic stage recovery split-literal-normalize from JavaScript object 15 at offset 0x665	2368 bytes
`font_00_type1_off0008db3e.bin` `d129a586d7449f3004ab2629e1b01753002037f8ca955d68339aba6fea13d9dd`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (type1) at offset 0x8DB3E	6428 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.55, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`font_01_type1_off0008f3d9.bin` `6d68a200ddadd677e7031f9795a017ce42b4d7f02b68d39a072ecbc1e20fb5d6`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (type1) at offset 0x8F3D9	7849 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.64, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
`font_02_type1_off000912a5.bin` `cab7a46a0f2b73639fc37aa221b515da6888b096748ee89dec2f4876e25f7f1f`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (type1) at offset 0x912A5	2374 bytes
`font_03_type1_off00091a96.bin` `f1d06dc0327817e03d778a88f65436557134c269106fbc5438dd4ef0c897a441`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (type1) at offset 0x91A96	11287 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.76, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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