Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea7c366100735857…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Authoring application: Adobe Central Output Server 5.5 (via Print Agent 5.5)
MD5: b9c171ac422138b5602881041901300d SHA-1: 5fc8143f55a2405e57f2ae2e4683d2a9b3a4c857 SHA-256: ea7c36610073585788d2de80e9a4b2c6a69216d2527157dedbc0e9afed259450
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains JavaScript that exploits CVE-2009-4324, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings indicate that the JavaScript is obfuscated and attempts to download a secondary payload. The presence of a polyglot child PDF further suggests a multi-stage attack. The primary intent appears to be the execution of arbitrary code via the exploited vulnerability.

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. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
  • 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)
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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 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
stream_004_off0000063a.js
9ca9a668eba99474eebb455b744d732177130848166da1620e330dabe400c6d0		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x63A 2660 bytes
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).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
42c3f4df375ff6f58ff655cc4f88b5cc28f0dd33b978390db3538684a6219b74		 deobfuscated-js string-concatenation normalized Acrobat API aliases at offset 0x63A 126 bytes
objstm_0023_00.bin
e8bfe65c34a535b0837ce7c541e45b42ab61e1ff13de05788daf7770f9a1ec0e		 pdf-objstm-decoded PDF /ObjStm 23 0 obj (inflated) 274 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off000093d3.pdf
4c8cef2e32792fa650de9caa3afd8bdd81f65c1512f1cd3792e8d94a97f34706		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x93D3 43254 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off000124dc.pdf
f42b147bb4711ebf99589b0ed51fd5174fa57c10212314adaf6cf8ba6002db56		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x124DC 6125 bytes

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