MALICIOUS
370
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF contains JavaScript that exploits the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability via the media.newPlayer API. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple malformed streams and the ML classifier's high confidence further support this assessment.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9815
Heuristics 10
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media.newPlayer — CVE-2009-4324 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_4324PDF 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)
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-30079 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-30079
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Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGEA 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.
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JavaScript action low 2 related findings PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTERPDF 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.Matched line in script
var sc = unescape(urpl("%Zc8d9%Z74d9%Zf424%Zeeba%Ze0ec%Z29de%Z5fc9%Z37b1%Z5731%Z8314%Z1001%Z2602%Z4207%Zdee0%Z55ee%Zdee4%Zecee%Zbabf%Zdc4f%Zdee0%Z67ee%Zd2a0%Z9c65%Z73fc%Z8465%Z8fe8%Z9965%Z55dc%Zc29a%Zdd98%Zba1b%Za86b%Zefce%Zed15%Za527%Z73a1%Z29ed%Z05d3%Z52e1%Ze6f0%Z981c%Z1fe8%Ze125%Z04e3%Z07ae%Ze511%Z99f1%Z8007%Zb265%Zddc4%Z8a33%Zd26b%Z67a5%Zc2be%Z31ed%Zda6b%Zef65%Z7525%Z0eb7%Zed5c%Z6f35%Zda23%Zec84%Z21b3%Z10b9%Zd9db%Z1f9b%Z8169%Z7512%Z8cb2%Z9b11%Z21e4%Z1099%Z891f%Z7516%Z9e8a%Zec86%Zdef0%Z13ee% … -
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JSPDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTHA PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
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Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
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Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTALThe 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.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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# In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 7
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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stream_002_off00000329.js |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x329 | 2684 bytes |
SHA-256: adf24d2f9388c47a1edc410bd21a0ac705271d8b5d9de7bea9f3d5a69ac2965f |
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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).
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legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js |
deobfuscated-js | string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x329 | 126 bytes |
SHA-256: 42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74 |
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Preview scriptFirst 1,000 lines of the extracted script
media.newPlayer(null); /* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA */ |
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objstm_0024_00.bin |
pdf-objstm-decoded | PDF /ObjStm 24 0 obj (inflated) | 332 bytes |
SHA-256: 5e33c5e97bbc41469ea4328ae48aa20389a4ed5a4c9608e42a4e56b7bc98859c |
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font_00_sfnt_off00019290.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19290 | 110880 bytes |
SHA-256: f7a9ec95c838495f4cc6573c5e257ef1d043c05a02a21ce0bfb512f739657946 |
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font_01_sfnt_off00028a05.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28A05 | 86132 bytes |
SHA-256: 4b6d7e76882f7bb2c4dbb92fda6b1626cda5be5195b6899a0cb5b6ea89e20ae8 |
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polyglot_child_pdf_off00008ded.pdf |
polyglot-child-pdf | Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x8DED | 185012 bytes |
SHA-256: 10be1f5ef20d5dd989ffab6452c24d9e82f0659049adad543fd668f4cc90b025 |
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polyglot_child_pdf_off000348b4.pdf |
polyglot-child-pdf | Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x348B4 | 6125 bytes |
SHA-256: 0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8 |
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