PDF malware analysis — malicious · 38dc13cb96c36b3e

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB

MD5: ce5c52bcd57ca7782a6573f8d012b05d SHA-1: 857a96606de727adb4c9ba5d30085f7610e988df SHA-256: 38dc13cb96c36b3e5d50c30033f5522bbb512d355db1c4047573719fc5b221f7

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The critical heuristic CVE_2007_5659 indicates the sample exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The PDF_BINARY_XOR_JS_STAGER heuristic confirms that obfuscated JavaScript is used as a stager. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, although the specific download URL or payload is not directly recoverable from the provided evidence.

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` `69d588dfef1b3bee9d9677806bceccb273781bf90964a6c0999f55f0d7f4238e`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 49 at offset 0xA	79816 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` `0763c6e73048e30deca834065d9b02da398cd9f62e481cf18a617ddd9f6b1f14`	deobfuscated-js	binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x464	1336 bytes

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