Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f9e140f0e8b33d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB
MD5: d2756e348b1a6c15ddfa351eb8917ba6 SHA-1: cca6434fb2d49594fa70169996ccd692107a76f4 SHA-256: 5f9e140f0e8b33d8a34bf3adc6a63615d375546669cce7458fa8f0ad2fe3be4d
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader U3D vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-3459, CVE-2009-3953). Embedded JavaScript is present, which is deobfuscated and executed via an eval call. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the deobfuscated code and the ML classifier's high confidence score.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • syncAnnotScan annotation-staging primitive low PDF_FOXIT_SYNCANNOTSCAN
    PDF JavaScript calls syncAnnotScan() — a no-op annotation-enumeration primitive used by exploit-kit JavaScript to stage payload reads from annotation /Subject fields before eval(). Not a vulnerable sink itself; rarely seen in legitimate PDFs. (matched in decompressed stream)
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0009_000.js
13cf2d0eaec85c705da4c2fffb65e113947a5265c1fe553819586fc741044d7a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 9 at offset 0x471E 610 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
5cd9cee4c08a370cd8bcfabb0891d2ee025b539188aa0f92452f5d1a64ff795d
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1C09 12156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
deobfuscated.js
d5237f1a3f7c7133eef95c3183e1400d9f4eac65d43bc625980e5f3dc5addbd2
deobfuscated-js PDF JavaScript deobfuscation pass 341691 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).
u3d_00_off00004995.bin
9ee983707edc4351a88e510e1ea40257b620aa8d1703a4e6b0401cfab3608352
pdf-3d-stream PDF U3D 3D stream at offset 0x4995 28021 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.79, consistent with packed or encrypted content.