Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cde3afd9105058f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

193.5 KB Created: 2009-03-05 21:22:26 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat Web Capture 8.0
MD5: e781fc93b5894547b23dfd2aff05eca0 SHA-1: 560b4575656f2c823caf3999b3a3dbbfecae393b SHA-256: 5cde3afd9105058fb8e258c9e5e3ed11264bd5e86dc10c63a3c179c3c8c473dc
272 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-0658 vulnerability. The JavaScript performs a heap spray and is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicating a clear exploit attempt. The presence of multiple JavaScript streams and the ML classifier's high confidence further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 10

  • Adobe Reader JBIG2Decode heap-spray exploit critical CVE likely CVE_2009_0658
    PDF combines JBIG2Decode image streams with a Reader 9 JavaScript heap-spray stage. This is the in-the-wild Adobe Reader/Acrobat JBIG2Decode exploit shape associated with CVE-2009-0658.
  • JBIG2 + active content high CVE related PDF_JBIG2_ACTIVE_CONTENT
    JBIG2Decode appears with JavaScript/XFA/RichMedia — a related indicator for JBIG2 parser-exploit families including CVE-2021-30860 and CVE-2009-0658, but not a unique CVE fingerprint.
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • JBIG2Decode filter medium PDF_JBIG2
    JBIG2 image decoder present — historically used in zero-click exploits
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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 10

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0054_000.js
76b9a9d595e071c01fab427db3229805067700ca8167c99a8d39a6f6869c3734
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 54 at offset 0x9495 867 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0056_001.js
a286a724917c4ed12e23c56fdbe9b05a086df706402e840df93ca822a639bf8f
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 56 at offset 0xA650 867 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0058_002.js
6300b36f22ef6578b0f03e4e9331a4dc1cfa3ef51cfced50c1ce2d725dd82351
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 58 at offset 0xB7B5 867 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0060_003.js
9fdeb4cf92d3ba004fe834e1ec15e7554d02b14121596b2b2948628aa9003bc4
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 60 at offset 0xC848 868 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0062_004.js
0a9d23151e9073a8ce6d92ab297ef25ffa9a4997c3ef7ce0ab8072f24b3d913b
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 62 at offset 0xD8DB 868 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0064_005.js
eda1a66b85446d51354818baf9e701cdc2d3426a71f8bb35fcb677bb522646b5
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 64 at offset 0xE96D 868 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0066_006.js
81adc8bd7014daa6355cf20ea01b14f79bca4b4c76f8c2fd674fb8103622f478
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 66 at offset 0xFA00 1845 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
javascript_obj0068_007.js
458e954f8b259080881683abc6ca3cff365a406c2deb959633a401931e84049c
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 68 at offset 0x10AD8 1824 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
stream_009_off00001c1f.bin
6a71966cad617bfb05c2fc57e09517130f7abf80fb7d2cd8d6f9a72dd0ff8cc6
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1C1F 8958 bytes
jbig2_00_off00008305.bin
526119a3255774ad5a67cfacb0487ce9215279864df719f86d73ff5f5361fdb9
pdf-jbig2-stream PDF JBIG2 stream at offset 0x8305 3739 bytes