Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a384d80c2b956348…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB
MD5: 4d1712230f9c4b9cd1051588c796d346 SHA-1: 2e6c78576dde90e46c1ab3f5eddec54fe9926d21 SHA-256: a384d80c2b956348d6ecba494864215104cc0f32ef602c87fd2c413765992e3e
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and exploits the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability (media.newPlayer). A secondary embedded PDF was also found with suspicious static findings, including JavaScript. The presence of these elements indicates the file is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The specific intent of the JavaScript is not fully discernible due to obfuscation, but it is highly likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0057_000.js
9d4167ae4f7c5d2f2ee88553518d38f9dcd31623ff941c116f92c46ba7bb8572		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 57 at offset 0x551F 46022 bytes
stream_005_off00000b74.bin
e4217c167299ac63f64b8b7e903cc0196f0828693d273431b8b793a12ed0fed3		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB74 1000 bytes
stream_014_off00005555.js
4389c8d7cc81cec8815aa2ea9c9e32c15c795ddcef36c7e70ab3d6fb4a41e8b5		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5555 2186 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).
objstm_0053_00.bin
f9797d0fa28384c30d8bf1da89163104ce539753e417fa1f9c5fd135d1eceb39		 pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 53 0 obj (inflated) 50 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00010897.pdf
3929e85f55f1a6d63452e8835b38dab85c01634571be548844d896a9d98e7e2e		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x10897 27598 bytes

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