PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1fb67f8cbe90e7d6

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB

MD5: 3a38822c444d6f19ba1542f6cec03ac8 SHA-1: b099e81fa2798d4eb45686180df3f683aa2acde0 SHA-256: 1fb67f8cbe90e7d6e34cfe0eb5d532e16e703e4a2ffb2b034f937cda2947d65e

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2007-5659 vulnerability, specifically targeting the Collab.collectEmailInfo function in Adobe Reader. This JavaScript is XOR-encoded and acts as a stager, designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics, including obfuscated JavaScript and a known exploit, strongly indicates malicious intent.

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)
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0049_000.js` `9c0a3e23f735531ec672bcdbb7c7cb0d434c516196d329d61092ee9679261e46`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 49 at offset 0xA	77692 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` `55444ec2f8d5d15aa2c4ea19727dc2d8337e9d773a0cd6a453f74d50abb16710`	deobfuscated-js	binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3F8	1294 bytes

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