Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07f3e2a8f06ecc5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.0 KB
MD5: 42500d5268f138386fce49fa468da7ef SHA-1: c5685adbe35b9ea5631c5efc9ed00d42b582c714 SHA-256: 07f3e2a8f06ecc5ad0f18b1bf0416f1e8d11c79fd4d95ace70aa10c3bbe080cf
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains obfuscated JavaScript that exploits CVE-2007-5659 (Collab.collectEmailInfo) to download and execute a second-stage payload. The deobfuscated script indicates it attempts to establish persistence by writing to the Run key 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IAccessible2Proxy' and downloads a payload from 'http://evil.tld/malware.exe'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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)
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • Binary-XOR JavaScript stager high PDF_BINARY_XOR_JS_STAGER
    PDF JavaScript stores viewer-version payload branches as long binary digit strings, XORs each bit pair, converts 8-bit chunks with String.fromCharCode, and evals the recovered exploit stage.
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0049_000.js
d9798fb263bcbd384dcb25075765e3190d259e83cd1a2d5cb4eb8ca67528dc5a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 49 at offset 0xA 76648 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
binary_xor_stage_000.js
e3d22a61ca9a745d0033eb8b536fee211344b43ec2d2ade9f0edb73dc7cc300b
deobfuscated-js binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x464 1270 bytes