PDF malware analysis — malicious · cc96c5e97a9e958d

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.5 KB Created: 2009-01-35 62:12:26 Authoring application: Adobe

MD5: 89ff146132af36a74fbd35313710ae8d SHA-1: e8f370e3b4acef382f0c123494b85587bdea9e4f SHA-256: cc96c5e97a9e958d15173dc2d12895c1720ad6aa28aefa27d9359592168e1604

246 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of known PDF reader vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-4324, CVE-2009-0927, CVE-2007-5659). These vulnerabilities are leveraged to execute embedded JavaScript. The JavaScript streams are heavily obfuscated but appear to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple exploit-related heuristics and the obfuscated JavaScript strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 8

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)
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (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.
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. (matched inside decoded stream)
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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0012_000.js` `61e50e5a82321961887207f9f24a4640e07e7a33bdad9edc1d61636925165b3e`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 12 at offset 0x1585	1040 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`javascript_obj0013_001.js` `5cf8b689e055fcb904e27ce32fcc65d260efc4bad4903c6c1a7702654174c541`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 13 at offset 0x176E	1356 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`javascript_obj0014_002.js` `5244a469f006c884e60d4207a414e053ce313eb3b0be9973cf40c97694bf6ebf`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 14 at offset 0x1982	982 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `721f67b3bdb69c48ca68104f925923a6e9d73a6161991616a4218a741337c341`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1BE	2955 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 6 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `8eeeea4e231fe3ba8b79434c13d2000ed00c1f5a9b039090f0a07e8f3d940d1b`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x8C8	1651 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_002.js` `e93ad71d3a2f20f0514f320c72f1a062c95c1c316657800d14ea24dcfc6f45ac`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0xEE7	1819 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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