PDF malware analysis — malicious · 028ef86b8dfff6f9

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB

MD5: 25a542a73b7cc51f811bd731a74c2205 SHA-1: 063ef54445d5fd2dac7c33a66517d0b3ed5151e4 SHA-256: 028ef86b8dfff6f9a08f0e5fab216a304cd0a0161b135b512eae7f59dfdf8bc4

310 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains JavaScript that exploits CVE-2007-5659 by using a percent-decoding eval stager within an annotation subject. This script is designed to download a second-stage executable from the URL http://mimino4.com/nte/avorp1lena.exe/yU230d9c2eH16e9f4cbV0100f080006R89443e50102Tc3c58d59201l0010. The embedded JavaScript and the specific CVE exploit indicate a malicious intent to execute arbitrary code.

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-36064 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064
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://mimino4.com/nte/avorp1lena.exe/yU230d9c2eH16e9f4cbV0100f080006R89443e50102Tc3c58d59201l0010

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `a5c8f0f722df4dd9876a0087e1eee65bd3020c5995f94f6729f7e17f3f3677a0`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D	331 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `dcb69d3b4bd97d4b0bd348a0bc70df7037c328fdf375a0e012bce5937e078c16`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2	12040 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `6f99674fe0f71e4c5cf7a9a49a8a39cc63c1b133321e66c6936b93a5997886a4`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2	4935 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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