PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2c9f60771aa7ba08

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB

MD5: e09b74e4598714ee8db2a67e13a28589 SHA-1: 126b664868572583234a281b5b4467a37963b7a9 SHA-256: 2c9f60771aa7ba08cdd446e8f2dd1fa3c64c3fb8136b09a75b8b2fb7456a8991

168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2009-4324, related to the media.newPlayer API. This indicates the sample is designed to exploit this vulnerability. The embedded JavaScript, although obfuscated, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

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)
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-18868 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-18868
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.
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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0008_000.js` `28f0e7267443075e54133c57cee56ce6bdd7f3701c73fb52e3cc4c12c8ec5156`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x1E7	2578 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `d7155f873b59e589a73c704be477a30cf4921d43cb2c81abc4b0960cad6f3280`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0xC2D	1220 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `42025b552c7960b53abcd8cd732b01c8d109eccfdfefc352b9826c4d5807d414`	deobfuscated-js	cross-stage annotation API aliases at offset 0x1E7	81 bytes

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