PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2c7a8ad003426f34

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB

MD5: 73a8f2af9e8c37e6d24acdb094dfaae4 SHA-1: b370f1326cd75a4fc60d590d1842b3d7240a7a0b SHA-256: 2c7a8ad003426f34940951e7e65b7feadccb52f55b4313b57ee1eec51310df48

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, triggered by a CVE-2007-5659 exploit targeting the Collab.collectEmailInfo method. The JavaScript is obfuscated and appears to be a stager designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7243859-0'. The presence of multiple deobfuscated JavaScript files further supports this dropper functionality.

Heuristics 6

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.Dropper.Agent-7243859-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7243859-0
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.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `1847af0a099665b6ac45af66402e56ed64237a1b287618ee3d6643267fda6f35`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D	343 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `c3ff7d7dbf2627340a5799bea82d27ca468a90ce83f53351aaf84f2fee28fdd1`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F0	12697 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `af4944ed375f01245d560e454851b7079f5674c0575ca3fba856ef5f29e1297a`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F0	5220 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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