MALICIOUS
198
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell
T1204.001 Malicious Link
The PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of CVE-2009-4324, CVE-2009-0927, and CVE-2007-5659. These exploits leverage embedded JavaScript to likely download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files further supports this attack vector. The file's purpose is to exploit these vulnerabilities for further malicious activity.
Heuristics 6
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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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Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927PDF 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)
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Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 critical CVE exact CVE_2007_5659PDF 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)
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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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.
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Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
Extracted artifacts 6
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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javascript_obj0032_000.jsb9edb7e0b946845864e5bc166009869b96442cb0138f0b5ef0eedc984b257cd8 |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 32 at offset 0x38B | 247 bytes |
javascript_obj0034_001.js53a4f63428cf6171fd9260e2c9fc57886cc4a5bb8174a879dee376d341b8993f |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 34 at offset 0x489 | 315 bytes |
javascript_obj0036_002.jsb5fb36724834777463c265e25fcdc452e2d7c60d51a21548d93803d777d05ba3 |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 36 at offset 0x7C | 187 bytes |
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js54c9d5bfb5c70df5b8df5d7b3cb820a2f3576537fe4878cb617b7e3fac130c66 |
deobfuscated-js | repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x5CE | 1806 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js02936a775a96d4f7cfed7dd01779ee28645e1059158d2af86d077cd025b9febe |
deobfuscated-js | repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0xB4C | 2950 bytes |
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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).
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legacy_pdfkit_stage_002.jsae4df2c94a6f56015cbc0802d36953d6fde9b72cbc0bd635f6fb91e0216470c7 |
deobfuscated-js | repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1156 | 1646 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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