Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d635ce325620f4b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

230.0 KB Created: 2010-01-07 11:07:02 +08:00
MD5: 8630362d976d88b1777a03172f42d657 SHA-1: ba58eeed5ea0258096e246c6fc50f6970cb5b8a3 SHA-256: d635ce325620f4b31e9558a8153c8f411add4749915cc7d8d896650a4d569042
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is triggered by a known vulnerability (CVE-2009-4324). The heuristic firings indicate that the PDF is designed to exploit this vulnerability, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded JavaScript is obfuscated but the exploit trigger is identifiable. The benign URLs present are standard PDF metadata namespaces and do not indicate malicious activity.

Heuristics 6

  • 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-15047 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-15047
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74
deobfuscated-js string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x674 126 bytes
objstm_0026_00.bin
1927301306a8a9b7ed09f153bcb6dbe394efd284902831ca549fbd446c3a8d21
pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 26 0 obj (inflated) 306 bytes