Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b5e2ee8ac8f88be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

155.1 KB Created: 2010-06-29 10:30:35 +08:00 Authoring application: Solid Converter PDF
MD5: 3bcb63e20916a7767612878e128793e5 SHA-1: dabd16ceafc824b5782d992dd1924c8b18067325 SHA-256: 4b5e2ee8ac8f88becbbf1f2e46834d3f801f244117d98b0cda5573fdef0b0c95
246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability, specifically targeting the media.newPlayer API. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a secondary PDF file further indicates a multi-stage attack. The URL http://www.seoul.intercontinental.com/intro.htm was found, but it is marked as benign.

Heuristics 10

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • RichMedia (Flash) high PDF_RICHMEDIA
    PDF contains /RichMedia (Adobe Flash) which is a historic exploit vector (matched inside decoded stream)
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload (matched inside decoded stream)
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://www.seoul.intercontinental.com/intro.htm
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off00000392.bin
95bbb6e5eca65d7784654a6a02aab5672a491d62338daa717c640eec3e81e6a3		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x392 4210 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74		 deobfuscated-js string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x392 126 bytes
objstm_0017_00.bin
dd7918c182d6e2b8d996a6b8ee81663c49a0cb297efe1e1fa3c5af0c987bde84		 pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 17 0 obj (inflated) 871 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00018a87.pdf
299084e59475842827d0ea4bd09bf63e3569c083af30ae0c18686314dd33910a		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x18A87 57811 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0002546d.pdf
0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x2546D 6125 bytes

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