Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68ffc98a51926f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.7 KB Created: 2010-03-17 14:18:59 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 8.1 for Word (via Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows))
MD5: 765e6cf0edf7a72bb5a155951f403b2f SHA-1: d1ffd7e1c1ab2aeffd9dde102a1f5bdac2dac5dc SHA-256: 68ffc98a51926f12fe4d595251304c0b2131cde66c172e4fcc95b489b043ae26
290 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains JavaScript that exploits CVE-2009-4324 via the media.newPlayer API. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, and the presence of obfuscated JavaScript streams and a secondary embedded PDF strongly suggests a multi-stage attack. The primary goal appears to be the execution of a malicious payload, likely downloaded from a remote source.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

Heuristics 9

  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000063a.js
2cc0a8dcee059f5b48d7fada04cf8adb11e3e5a71f5b780ba564f0a4a4359a2e		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x63A 2578 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(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 0x63A 126 bytes
objstm_0023_00.bin
e8bfe65c34a535b0837ce7c541e45b42ab61e1ff13de05788daf7770f9a1ec0e		 pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 23 0 obj (inflated) 274 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9cc.bin
025f358ae91bec6978541679ed0e34ed10041d93601fdb816344a4294410dac1		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9CC 209156 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0000dfe3.pdf
d095224f0d366368ac4b7aed21a8ce02f8ae7ab81b6dca4aa44c89a4067cd904		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0xDFE3 52974 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off000196e4.pdf
0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x196E4 6125 bytes

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