Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cf218b078de7906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB
MD5: f7a31b6aed1c22929b3c80f4b5109ef3 SHA-1: 157ba1ff421b43ef6defedbf1569dff32e2c5fac SHA-256: 7cf218b078de7906cd17cd945dbe465a4d1365e7d6eeb5d5f0ce3e5e9f917b65
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability. This script is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious PDF, indicating a multi-stage attack. The critical heuristic firings strongly support this attack vector.

Heuristics 7

  • 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. (matched in decompressed stream)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0218_000.js
2ea37075bcfffeee08b257caa647ed2996d82e790ee7460379210c7ab1a24cb2		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 218 at offset 0x549A 2156 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
polyglot_child_pdf_off000153e5.pdf
f8de0549a028ad4fcdc04b93e6e8e447e8b344e8bc12c6c174dc66cb5593fc0d		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x153E5 23403 bytes

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