PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2e68809150e12da7

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB

MD5: 21469d498ff49d31375be48b6b54658d SHA-1: 756e05728201a034074ff58187da5a959a7a2730 SHA-256: 2e68809150e12da74c198959e1cc3a8c0206db6d51ef3d86f35547d0450bc98a

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2009-0927, indicating an exploit attempt. The presence of JavaScript actions and streams, along with the ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20722, strongly suggests malicious intent. The exploit likely aims to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927

PDF JavaScript calls Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by Collab.getIcon() with a crafted argument. Allows arbitrary code execution. (matched in decompressed stream)
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20722 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-20722
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0006_000.js` `7d51c56f23dabd0b879ff9b2efc768455b395754aaae4a138b21d5b0eca5c296`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x19D	6149 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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