PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9bbbaee4c549357f

MALICIOUS

PDF

236.9 KB

MD5: c97b3f2550660c5a9c228b57ca81e396 SHA-1: 5e6f54851ee8230519af85957c675f4c49009a9d SHA-256: 9bbbaee4c549357f43e4503cb055f91683005ab9ec40b2f0497c8c57da2b9428

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF document contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical vulnerability, CVE-2009-4324, related to media player handling. This suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute malicious code. The presence of a secondary embedded PDF with similar suspicious findings further supports this. The primary intent appears to be the execution of a second-stage payload via the embedded JavaScript.

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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0052_000.js` `45fea71ee6347153ec3719ebc3910509cd6fa568f263c29e7474c694308f5c7d`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 52 at offset 0x3F4E	301 bytes
`javascript_obj0057_001.js` `525a25e1b66ec2bfe53b584887b4f54d069836c2a2d7f67050b50197ca396ab1`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 57 at offset 0x5500	2522 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
`stream_005_off00000b74.bin` `e4217c167299ac63f64b8b7e903cc0196f0828693d273431b8b793a12ed0fed3`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB74	1000 bytes
`objstm_0053_00.bin` `f9797d0fa28384c30d8bf1da89163104ce539753e417fa1f9c5fd135d1eceb39`	pdf-objstm-decoded	PDF /ObjStm 53 0 obj (inflated)	50 bytes
`polyglot_child_pdf_off00034773.pdf` `ddca2a6a089d3b8fc4911be41f3f45247ba99ae25297ed4039e7661c9237482e`	polyglot-child-pdf	Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x34773	27691 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.