Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48a63625adc4c125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

624.2 KB
MD5: 97a8b435547545462f54b12070797ed0 SHA-1: b8c77a341f8c9c4592e7c2bfc2923af0ead8f66b SHA-256: 48a63625adc4c125cb2990dcb58a796817457f9f0458a3ff98889b86fec984a6
510 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader vulnerabilities, specifically CVE-2009-3459 and CVE-2007-5659, through embedded JavaScript. The JavaScript is designed to download a second-stage executable from the URL http://mcduimqmoxk.com/nte/prox.exe/yH9ad7bd4fV0100f060006R87006a76102Td6c4d8bc203l000c, which is a common technique for delivering malware. The presence of U3D content and obfuscated JavaScript further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8316

Heuristics 13

  • 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.
  • 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 JavaScript deobfuscation)
  • Adobe Reader U3D CLODProgressiveMeshDeclaration exploit critical CVE likely CVE_2009_3953
    PDF combines malformed U3D 3D content with JavaScript/action activation. CVE-2009-3953 is an Adobe Reader/Acrobat U3D CLODProgressiveMeshDeclaration array-boundary vulnerability triggered by malformed U3D data in a PDF.
  • 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.
  • Adobe Reader APSB09-15 patch-range version gate (CVE-2009-3459) high CVE likely PDF_JS_ADOBE_APSB09_15_PATCH_GATE
    PDF JavaScript gates the exploit payload on an Adobe Reader version range that exactly matches the APSB09-15 patch boundary (< 9.2, < 8.1.7, < 7.1.4). That boundary fingerprints the CVE-2009-2990 / CVE-2009-3459 U3D parser vulnerabilities — no benign script tests all three Reader version-points together.
  • Adobe Reader APSB08-13 patch-range version gate (CVE-2007-5659) high CVE likely PDF_JS_ADOBE_APSB08_13_PATCH_GATE
    PDF JavaScript gates the exploit payload on (>= 8 && < 8.1.1) OR (< 7.1) — the Reader 7.0.x / 8.0–8.1.1 window patched by Adobe APSB08-13 for the CVE-2007-5659 Collab.collectEmailInfo buffer overflow. Only kits that target that exact bug check both of those patch points; benign scripts do not.
  • Annotation subject percent-decoding eval stager critical PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER
    OpenAction JavaScript forces annotation enumeration, reads an annotation /Subject payload with getAnnots(), rewrites marker bytes into percent escapes, decodes it with unescape(), and dispatches it through eval. This is a high-confidence exploit-kit staging pattern. It is intentionally not mapped to CVE-2009-1492 unless getAnnots() itself carries the crafted integer or long argument shape for that vulnerability.
  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • PDF JavaScript shellcode contains an embedded download URL high PDF_JS_SHELLCODE_DOWNLOAD_URL
    Decoded PDF JavaScript shellcode contains a hardcoded http(s) URL stored as little-endian %uXXXX Unicode escapes. Reader exploit shellcode embeds the second-stage fetch URL this way and pulls it down with a urlmon/URLDownloadToFile-style download-and-execute (commodity downloader behaviour rather than a specific Acrobat CVE).
  • 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.
  • 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://mcduimqmoxk.com/nte/prox.exe/yH9ad7bd4fV0100f060006R87006a76102Td6c4d8bc203l000c
    • http://www.iec.ch

Extracted artifacts 20

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0312_000.js
068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 312 at offset 0x9A5C1 373 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
bd3f7cca0a7a96075893165df58ddfbaf5b77485e7579a5a51beb88b7915246d
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x8F5DB 13024 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
4f39c03cbf9838cc4f2560d387019df27f4b9a84a8d50633f3158a912b5fde13
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x8F5DB 5403 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
icc_00_off0001640e.icc
2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e
pdf-icc-profile PDF ICC profile at offset 0x1640E 3144 bytes
font_00_cff_off0000e054.bin
38f4ddd32e736897982ced0858b49da07a104e846d0946b9789f4ef370f99eb2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xE054 357 bytes
font_01_cff_off0000e4fd.bin
2789af23995f8af33b2dae091e9b962494e0b8b0e898fada623820ee9686b3ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xE4FD 499 bytes
font_02_cff_off0000ea2a.bin
755b31802bfcbe5da85fa3b6417005821fa046390579475e59a1b7e221fd17f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xEA2A 2550 bytes
font_03_cff_off0000f778.bin
eb7fc9a0f6b5c973d758c18668889ef5241421e8108bf894a9400ecd0930c40c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0xF778 3369 bytes
font_04_cff_off00010721.bin
ce12ce1ce9ee146def1a9a0aa879316c8283c74b0dab40de60412666b768231d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x10721 2951 bytes
font_05_cff_off00011556.bin
650743b0083f4117eafe6d934f210cd07b94d118b25ed99f041916d1b6f42ac7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x11556 5979 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.40, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
font_06_cff_off00012dd6.bin
91487fd16b17d83908b1ba219ae597731b7158e968667787a056b1d4df0de59a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x12DD6 1949 bytes
font_07_cff_off000139e9.bin
cf4944c56c01f4a65c36b5010c12128ca3ddbe0e6806e8b147a7b04453bfa751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x139E9 6612 bytes
font_08_cff_off0001560a.bin
c5675bd2f2b586cbf48ee24f95e1cf91eec1b4928c28c92220efce9ec4db3e29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x1560A 3996 bytes
font_09_sfnt_off00018c8f.bin
2722878b19761e7a433e1ca6f32e7f9fe9cccce4136877b3beb9040f23bd4b18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C8F 23432 bytes
font_10_sfnt_off0001c266.bin
80383e85181b7288bd3f68d71356b7e2ef2e1f0ba00d93e81908469c104a18d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C266 52108 bytes
font_11_sfnt_off0002494e.bin
336a7a084a76c025a84d5a8cbd6080db9a267cde0e24fe672acabed56b19aa8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2494E 48764 bytes
font_12_cff_off00092938.bin
b7acc2e77938f52ea0e0e99ad276600cacf4c9a68f9966b0cff658984fc5fdfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x92938 1390 bytes
font_16_cff_off0009779c.bin
498107d4b463cdfaabb7ecb0de303a1fd3753cd0475826d8151726b62a86cbb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x9779C 2026 bytes
font_17_cff_off000982c3.bin
6b20e84459271e0cdfae9863860320d5b0fe24a40f52c5aa56fd600bf142e820
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x982C3 1370 bytes
u3d_00_off00088a5d.bin
48816569ab4f370009a917ef6429edbe09e4dfe8a63b00a0a0f75a904c62ba94
pdf-3d-stream PDF U3D 3D stream at offset 0x88A5D 27449 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.