PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8477185d11bb36f5

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.6 KB Created: 2012-09-17 23:33:20 +04:00 Authoring application: Adobe Acrobat 10.0 (via Acrobat Web Capture 10.0)

MD5: ee3d8c6a702130768cb860dce8c01cb7 SHA-1: deb8eb8817d29e1eaeea2d52ee2048d49339acf9 SHA-256: 8477185d11bb36f5bba2a0c467b264557ad7d5a2d5edd49525f1f9fa2cbc96f3

308 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of several CVEs related to JavaScript execution within Adobe Reader. Specifically, the 'PDF_BASE_N_PAIR_JS_STAGER' and multiple CVE-specific rules point to the use of obfuscated JavaScript to achieve code execution. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although the specific URLs for this payload were not extracted. The exploitation of these known vulnerabilities is the primary attack vector.

Heuristics 10

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)
Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927

PDF JavaScript calls Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by Collab.getIcon() with a crafted argument. Allows arbitrary code execution. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 critical CVE exact CVE_2007_5659

PDF JavaScript calls Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 is a buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by a long argument or heap-sprayed message field passed to Collab.collectEmailInfo(). Part of a series of Acrobat JS API exploits. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
util.printf — CVE-2008-2992 critical CVE exact CVE_2008_2992

PDF JavaScript calls util.printf() — CVE-2008-2992 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by a long format-specifier argument. Widely exploited in the wild after disclosure. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
Base-N pair JavaScript stager high PDF_BASE_N_PAIR_JS_STAGER

PDF JavaScript stores a long payload as character pairs decoded with parseInt(radix) and String.fromCharCode, then evals the result. The decoder only handles bounded pair tables and only fires when the recovered stage contains exploit-like JavaScript.
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.
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.
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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0019_000.js` `8421fb905e0dcca2a1a1c34ccfd6cccba7fffcfe8cec526b05a6233c14ea80c8`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 19 at offset 0x2E1	8565 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).
`base_n_pair_stage_000.js` `b63d057cea363ea5a71c8d4afddf0c3906115738a227bca5123bd9f4c4ab7f73`	deobfuscated-js	base-31 pair decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2EE	3867 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 11 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`icc_00_off00002b11.icc` `653b586c4707574ffcd648ba35494daed2c76ceafcf4c07d315ed961b1dc347f`	pdf-icc-profile	PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2B11	408 bytes
`icc_01_off00002dac.icc` `2b3aa1645779a9e634744faf9b01e9102b0c9b88fd6deced7934df86b949af7e`	pdf-icc-profile	PDF ICC profile at offset 0x2DAC	3144 bytes

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