Malicious PDF / .DLL — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64a2ae9a2b553f66…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .DLL

371.3 KB Created: 2009-03-05 21:22:26 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat Web Capture 8.0
MD5: c3ec549eeaa77e8e5d767a1db9cab020 SHA-1: 5f1a95fc7740d0397c3f3148761ee09c52382398 SHA-256: 64a2ae9a2b553f66b9d69170e3eed6af5c60de0ec4525b5d3da99a46579d71db
272 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-0658 vulnerability, a known exploit for Adobe Reader's JBIG2Decode filter. The JavaScript is designed to perform a heap spray and execute shellcode, indicating an attempt to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's system. The presence of multiple obfuscated JavaScript streams and the critical heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious exploit.

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
9394995d3ee4de881f4c28fb0bdb755b855d829633592607bda32e7db63afe0a
pdf-jbig2-stream PDF JBIG2 stream at offset 0x8305 3739 bytes