PDF malware analysis — malicious · 21fe42492992c788

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.4 KB

MD5: 714020c727dec018ffed79d26f6a8a26 SHA-1: cde53591dfe26782a789e2839d652da907b13315 SHA-256: 21fe42492992c7882b6fe6017384b73c1ccba35977619afaba1a39d7542b52f7

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript, triggered by the CVE-2007-5659 vulnerability (Collab.collectEmailInfo). The JavaScript is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to extract and execute further stages, as indicated by the embedded artifacts. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of a known Adobe Reader vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Heuristics 4

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)
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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0005_000.js` `f048286b2dfe205330e162117bc9e2e9406092389e25aa91660890d79cb205b6`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 5 at offset 0xF7	916 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `7a590a04ea87350e84c3856974289b971d37449302c9c2940b4de6ef81f0d52b`	deobfuscated-js	z-percent hex-pair decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3B7	4919 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `79371305d462f00f2a141b476e1cf8fba05bdb49c15d53c9a49ff740e927b262`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3B7	11601 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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