PDF malware analysis — malicious · 0234176445fd3943

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB

MD5: e469f6762847870e7f9da3d7f255a813 SHA-1: 00558a6a1a42700eed2627a18d2af6158205ec08 SHA-256: 0234176445fd3943c1f0812b34acade29ffbf2c5ec0c4c2fbaa31812775e9b1d

310 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains embedded JavaScript, identified by multiple heuristics including 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS'. The JavaScript is designed to exploit CVE-2007-5659, as indicated by the 'CVE_2007_5659' and 'PDF_JS_ADOBE_APSB08_13_PATCH_GATE' firings. The script's primary function is to download a second-stage payload from the URL 'http://danenskgela.com/nte/RFX.html/yH54083e58V0100f070006R0370548510aT9c26e5bd201l0007', as confirmed by the 'PDF_JS_SHELLCODE_DOWNLOAD_URL' heuristic. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065' further supports its malicious nature.

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: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065
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://danenskgela.com/nte/RFX.html/yH54083e58V0100f070006R0370548510aT9c26e5bd201l0007

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `9c67560e8c63b720885d3efc1627b844b86a6ec08e99e5b65a22eae832045756`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C	431 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `aec5ceaa19578145cbfb335790c008ee6e63f54af85914bec7f9e7282ed89423`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315	12128 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `6d04c84dfe6f61b6ef2d099853d3efbc459aa6622c4231be320d06a9491c4010`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315	4979 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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