Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b0f9104397ca4ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2009-07-08 10:53:46 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows)
MD5: 190d1ddcb718c0c3fb837c2af8688dc7 SHA-1: defcdadd220031d7986f0401498643dcfbba91f0 SHA-256: 5b0f9104397ca4ffd575157fbcb330c8027c498ebbfdbb224ce36d91461cf1c7
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that exploits CVE-2009-4324, specifically targeting the media.newPlayer function in Adobe Reader. The deobfuscated JavaScript likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, indicating a client-side exploitation attempt. No specific malware family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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)
  • Generic recovered JavaScript exploit stage high PDF_GENERIC_STAGE_RECOVERY
    Bounded static stage recovery exposed hidden JavaScript through generic transforms such as null-byte collapse, percent decoding, marker replacement, arithmetic character codes, fromCharCode, numeric arrays, numeric-array minus-key decoders, alphabet-index arrays, /Producer half-difference metadata arrays, hex literals, marker-stripped Base64 literals, custom 6-bit XOR table decoders, or repeated-marker hex carriers. This rule is emitted only when the recovered stage contains exploit-like Acrobat JavaScript or shellcode markers.
  • 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/pdf/1.3/
    • 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/pdfx/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0017_000.js
f202bfa7308fb897d1d7e365a9c797293b16690b37bd1181291378e360b6b7b4
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 17 at offset 0x4DA 2951 bytes
generic_stage_recovery_000.js
cca01a366b282bb13a78b1b6374d691564e912972d277d390b49acbaee430f54
deobfuscated-js generic stage recovery split-literal-normalize from JavaScript object 17 at offset 0x4DA 2757 bytes