MALICIOUS
290
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.001 Malicious Link
T1204.002 Malicious File
The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability, specifically targeting the media.newPlayer API. This JavaScript is obfuscated and likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The presence of a secondary embedded PDF further suggests a multi-stage attack. The document body itself is heavily corrupted and unreadable, providing no direct clues to the lure.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9406
Heuristics 8
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media.newPlayer — CVE-2009-4324 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_4324PDF 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)
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Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGEA 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.
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JavaScript action low 2 related findings PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTERPDF 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.Matched line in script
var sc = unescape(urpl("%Zc8d9%Z74d9%Zf424%Zeeba%Ze0ec%Z29de%Z5fc9%Z37b1%Z5731%Z8314%Z1001%Z2602%Z4207%Zdee0%Z55ee%Zdee4%Zecee%Zbabf%Zdc4f%Zdee0%Z67ee%Zd2a0%Z9c65%Z73fc%Z8465%Z8fe8%Z9965%Z55dc%Zc29a%Zdd98%Zba1b%Za86b%Zefce%Zed15%Za527%Z73a1%Z29ed%Z05d3%Z52e1%Ze6f0%Z981c%Z1fe8%Ze125%Z04e3%Z07ae%Ze511%Z99f1%Z8007%Zb265%Zddc4%Z8a33%Zd26b%Z67a5%Zc2be%Z31ed%Zda6b%Zef65%Z7525%Z0eb7%Zed5c%Z6f35%Zda23%Zec84%Z21b3%Z10b9%Zd9db%Z1f9b%Z8169%Z7512%Z8cb2%Z9b11%Z21e4%Z1099%Z891f%Z7516%Z9e8a%Zec86%Zdef0%Z13ee% … -
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JSPDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
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Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTALThe same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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# In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
- http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
- http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
Extracted artifacts 8
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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stream_004_off0000063a.js |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x63A | 2578 bytes |
SHA-256: 7f56f093d8771659434745067c97953ac2df3e0aba3bc25530ca783ac303c3e1 |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
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stream_011_off0000eea5.bin |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xEEA5 | 212700 bytes |
SHA-256: bc74e9ddf10bd5455eb39dcf160780954dd2c6ec712cca0ebc4af1d212406a01 |
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legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js |
deobfuscated-js | string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x63A | 126 bytes |
SHA-256: 42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74 |
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Preview scriptFirst 1,000 lines of the extracted script
media.newPlayer(null); /* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA */ |
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objstm_0023_00.bin |
pdf-objstm-decoded | PDF /ObjStm 23 0 obj (inflated) | 274 bytes |
SHA-256: e8bfe65c34a535b0837ce7c541e45b42ab61e1ff13de05788daf7770f9a1ec0e |
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font_01_sfnt_off00018d14.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D14 | 24520 bytes |
SHA-256: d954d8365e342ffc11be3a98bc3b084c3504deca739f3d423487e01028550c9d |
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font_02_sfnt_off0001b943.bin |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B943 | 145344 bytes |
SHA-256: b2b40376a3145b09cabf926a3c44fa57d9e5ac7a1418f11ba78ced68b71b0a32 |
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polyglot_child_pdf_off0000dfd7.pdf |
polyglot-child-pdf | Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0xDFD7 | 81737 bytes |
SHA-256: d0beca9695aa7d47ca5f0d332f2b7f6cde3fa5169605537280863ea8e00a1a18 |
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polyglot_child_pdf_off00020733.pdf |
polyglot-child-pdf | Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x20733 | 6125 bytes |
SHA-256: 0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8 |
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