Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7a411da37114079…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB
MD5: 22c17f3de442bea54619aed329ae78c1 SHA-1: c0615b33a4525d4042322fbfcd8537d12b70857e SHA-256: c7a411da371140799bed224086139dce3e6aa63713262a016c234a953b3ae696
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2009-4324, indicating an exploit attempt. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, appears to be designed to execute malicious code, likely downloading a secondary payload. The specific exploit used is identified as CVE-2009-4324, related to the media.newPlayer API.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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)
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-19184 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-19184
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0008_000.js
c77631520e878dd9539ac687c1da75f757b61a28a393baa54d5b84c2bc757aca
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x1E7 2578 bytes
javascript_obj0008_001.js
4f3064d0f62016da843b511876284e7fe0bab38516a028ffdc651c301704d481
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x209 46806 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
d7155f873b59e589a73c704be477a30cf4921d43cb2c81abc4b0960cad6f3280
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0xC2D 1220 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
42025b552c7960b53abcd8cd732b01c8d109eccfdfefc352b9826c4d5807d414
deobfuscated-js cross-stage annotation API aliases at offset 0x1E7 81 bytes