PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3aa53039918b96bf

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: 124d1e9f4e1461b2ae40670ff12fae37 SHA-1: e44d3caeceb9b1f28443eed173c59d109b37cca4 SHA-256: 3aa53039918b96bffd59b324c00a2ed36f741a026aa19968c5f7d7343ccc370e

266 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file that contains heavily obfuscated JavaScript. Static analysis revealed multiple critical heuristic firings indicating the exploitation of several Adobe Reader vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-4324, CVE-2009-0927, CVE-2007-5659, CVE-2008-2992). The deobfuscated JavaScript likely executes arbitrary code, leading to the exploitation of these vulnerabilities. The exact payload and subsequent actions are not detailed in the provided evidence, but the exploitation of these known CVEs is the primary attack vector.

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` `9afeacfb6a44be00b819ba16df341ce1596c85842ddb2a100eaa40756c3de516`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 19 at offset 0x2DF	9056 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` `103c4afb1e75d63b8544e8a2610ad62580dfb08a10880edf9c64163f081a35be`	deobfuscated-js	PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass	24865 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_off00002d00.icc` `653b586c4707574ffcd648ba35494daed2c76ceafcf4c07d315ed961b1dc347f`	pdf-icc-profile	PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2D00	408 bytes
`icc_01_off00002f9b.icc` `2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e`	pdf-icc-profile	PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2F9B	3144 bytes

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