Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f22a25f6545877e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2010-06-29 10:14:47 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat 编辑器 8.0 (via Adobe Acrobat 8.0)
MD5: 07fe6121882fe4d52afd8b67cd8c8232 SHA-1: 5bd161f51d8d76d56a46dbd2c5a8db1c01a7c1fd SHA-256: f22a25f6545877e20032a481baf078cd2640017463e8d548a2b1f6bc40dd8a49
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2009-4324 vulnerability, indicated by the 'media.newPlayer' heuristic. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The presence of a polyglot child PDF further suggests a multi-stage attack. The benign URLs extracted do not provide further indicators.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0021_000.js
2d419469adcbfa20c7df4202cfbdb025318710a8f5e54101b69cc5c05f283cd3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 21 at offset 0x514 2284 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(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 0x514 126 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off000107e8.bin
093bd3779feeb79160d49895b4b1e75b229bc7082303c92f758076782526ac6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E8 6116 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0000ef16.pdf
a34cc8368b9fdfe5d16368f127ecd7004cc5dc7f2f4bd304f7385f70c4ab6520
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0xEF16 28128 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off00014509.pdf
0b1c923c8a0028794f3a3244dc498786746334f394e41678cc58ffbeb707d0a8
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x14509 6125 bytes