Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a07663361a12f8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB
MD5: fb735c0cb5d19b8bdfdd4ab30a4df2bc SHA-1: 000bad659de6b7a007b747f1a0564b94c53d386a SHA-256: 3a07663361a12f8b80aad81e22664fa7d52733bc1100333329281ae3d391fc35
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript that utilizes a binary-XOR stager to exploit CVE-2007-5659 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple JavaScript-related heuristics and the specific CVE firing strongly indicate a malicious exploit attempt.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0049_000.js
421ab55ba694329da819950d1cdd2874081d3fb7a12fbd3f4c8d6c71d909421e
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
0fd8851cb2bc39359de7e53cbb91c5648ec98e4c892ce573ed92c3c021a4862d
deobfuscated-js binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3F8 1294 bytes