Malicious PDF / .TXT — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01696d40c7a03d7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .TXT

13.0 KB
MD5: e375167f29353832610cff3c72473b55 SHA-1: 97409944e84c9ee0b83b6af3c9ae43eddc0a273f SHA-256: 01696d40c7a03d7df51fa43d7ec3c27906e1d6ddcb201032bbd283fda352cd11
310 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF sample contains obfuscated JavaScript that exploits CVE-2007-5659 using the Collab.collectEmailInfo method. The embedded JavaScript is designed to download a second-stage payload from the URL http://qbcdpdaqmlc.com/nte/PROX.html/yH54ff17caV0100f060006R87006a76102Te7bfd5dc203l000c. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

  • 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)
  • Adobe Reader APSB08-13 patch-range version gate (CVE-2007-5659) high CVE likely PDF_JS_ADOBE_APSB08_13_PATCH_GATE
    PDF JavaScript gates the exploit payload on (>= 8 && < 8.1.1) OR (< 7.1) — the Reader 7.0.x / 8.0–8.1.1 window patched by Adobe APSB08-13 for the CVE-2007-5659 Collab.collectEmailInfo buffer overflow. Only kits that target that exact bug check both of those patch points; benign scripts do not.
  • Annotation subject percent-decoding eval stager critical PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER
    OpenAction JavaScript forces annotation enumeration, reads an annotation /Subject payload with getAnnots(), rewrites marker bytes into percent escapes, decodes it with unescape(), and dispatches it through eval. This is a high-confidence exploit-kit staging pattern. It is intentionally not mapped to CVE-2009-1492 unless getAnnots() itself carries the crafted integer or long argument shape for that vulnerability.
  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • PDF JavaScript shellcode contains an embedded download URL high PDF_JS_SHELLCODE_DOWNLOAD_URL
    Decoded PDF JavaScript shellcode contains a hardcoded http(s) URL stored as little-endian %uXXXX Unicode escapes. Reader exploit shellcode embeds the second-stage fetch URL this way and pulls it down with a urlmon/URLDownloadToFile-style download-and-execute (commodity downloader behaviour rather than a specific Acrobat CVE).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://qbcdpdaqmlc.com/nte/PROX.html/yH54ff17caV0100f060006R87006a76102Te7bfd5dc203l000c

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
bedd676af9bf2e3ca07f9e3a10d07bc561e9745801f30653ef176c0c1e7620a3		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D 336 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
fcca55248f527a827bb0ef7c89c9267f4b4fd4997dc1e7bd50e057ce86cb69a2		 deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F4 12043 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
684e1c21662552134fa3f82a5a60210ebd3190fd4c913f4e7ba8f46099df5a43		 deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F4 5041 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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