Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b26c2c65f8efd62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 463243085252f9a696c56b9ecc3a16eb SHA-1: c9a6acb68855254cab5fe0ea4d2a74ba19dde122 SHA-256: 1b26c2c65f8efd62ddbb91ef84e3d5d19d03de25a4f7aa3aa815068438a9bfb5
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated and uses a known exploit technique (CVE-2007-5659) involving the 'Collab.collectEmailInfo' method to execute arbitrary code. The extracted JavaScript files, 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js', are likely part of a multi-stage attack designed to download and execute further malicious content. ClamAV also identified this as 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065'.

Heuristics 7

  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser exited 1. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
9c67560e8c63b720885d3efc1627b844b86a6ec08e99e5b65a22eae832045756
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C 431 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
c1b395660ffd1abd42361a857339285b3ff00f27fb52fc6c9bba880488a6c0a6
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 12405 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
abd2875dfc7dc8d34bce4da8ab88474c00520557efd3657a7a9d105fba824620
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 5094 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).