Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fd2a5574f4c8b3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.94 MB
MD5: 61fbe19a6c451e46101d07f4086e230b SHA-1: b08f747dd3fea159b899b47fe810fba7a23762a1 SHA-256: 2fd2a5574f4c8b3b77f539f5beaa4ad4bd5fa65dffaf4735250e8a1d4f252239
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that utilizes the eval() function and exploits CVE-2009-4324 via the media.newPlayer object. This indicates the file is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. A secondary embedded PDF was also found with similar suspicious findings. No specific malware family was identified.

Heuristics 7

  • 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. (matched in decompressed stream)
  • 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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0057_000.js
0cf3945d40c7154a2142409bf2326ef1a6ba069f888ccebc90ba0e6fd941a80a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 57 at offset 0x551F 2143 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_005_off00000b74.bin
e4217c167299ac63f64b8b7e903cc0196f0828693d273431b8b793a12ed0fed3
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB74 1000 bytes
objstm_0053_00.bin
f9797d0fa28384c30d8bf1da89163104ce539753e417fa1f9c5fd135d1eceb39
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 53 0 obj (inflated) 50 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off002eb227.pdf
7056c866c1c54e9504f6f8f38f11549d4ba762daaf94a4a556e47ed4d5e1eff0
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x2EB227 27598 bytes