MALICIOUS
148
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is flagged as a high-severity heuristic for generic exploit stage recovery. The critical heuristic CVE_2009_4324 indicates exploitation of a known vulnerability related to media player functionality. The JavaScript code is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for malware delivery.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999
Heuristics 5
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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. (matched in decompressed stream)
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Generic recovered JavaScript exploit stage high PDF_GENERIC_STAGE_RECOVERYBounded static stage recovery exposed hidden JavaScript through generic transforms such as null-byte collapse, percent decoding, marker replacement, arithmetic character codes, fromCharCode, numeric arrays, numeric-array minus-key decoders, alphabet-index arrays, /Producer half-difference metadata arrays, hex literals, marker-stripped Base64 literals, custom 6-bit XOR table decoders, or repeated-marker hex carriers. This rule is emitted only when the recovered stage contains exploit-like Acrobat JavaScript or shellcode markers.
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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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.
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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#
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
- 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/pdfx/1.3/
Extracted artifacts 2
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
javascript_obj0017_000.jse09c11a234f64adaffab57715b8092ca8ba50bababda482d288dbb68b8e2db9b |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 17 at offset 0x4DA | 3452 bytes |
generic_stage_recovery_000.js4b1f222cd78ec223727c7b70ca67579748d72180fd719deffcbf0d75005e04fb |
deobfuscated-js | generic stage recovery split-literal-normalize from JavaScript object 17 at offset 0x4DA | 3240 bytes |
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