PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7b79b698c3054352

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.4 KB

MD5: 957a047bd7841147798825b29d3914c9 SHA-1: 2a0f130b25dfc6cd017460a88ca95e5b05844161 SHA-256: 7b79b698c3054352b22c78cf372368f8b7b961868031c970911cd1adc6d1a2ca

284 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains embedded JavaScript and U3D content, triggering critical heuristics related to CVE-2011-2462, a known exploit for Adobe Reader's U3D parser. The JavaScript is obfuscated but uses functions like unescape() and String.fromCharCode(), indicating an attempt to download and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 10

Adobe Reader U3D parser exploit with JavaScript heap spray critical CVE likely CVE_2011_2462_U3D_HEAPSPRAY

PDF combines U3D/3D annotation content with JavaScript heap-spray shellcode. Public CVE-2011-2462 exploit chains use a crafted U3D stream and JavaScript heap spray to control memory during Adobe Reader's U3D parser corruption.
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.
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)
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0015_000.js` `effcfd82b76643631ac810c45878e463292983350048214c3d718cff655d077f`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 15 at offset 0x7D6	11916 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 8 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`u3d_00_off000003cb.bin` `db47f9e6c2fa22cca9aaaaba842bc1035f54c0acd3737dbd64b69dc1671da5eb`	pdf-3d-stream	PDF U3D 3D stream at offset 0x3CB	1268 bytes

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