Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a20e96907fbc124…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.5 KB
MD5: aa0dbb463741533ec54f881d23d26f26 SHA-1: 974a4240d0e3d65d7464b833bd6fd0c0a4cc5985 SHA-256: 3a20e96907fbc1247428e499afa4b0d94eefd98365ffb8b629bfd14e8a26cdaa
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is flagged as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062). Heuristics indicate the exploitation of CVE-2007-5659 using JavaScript, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The deobfuscated JavaScript files 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js' were extracted, suggesting a multi-stage attack.

Heuristics 5

  • 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: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B 373 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
d2872dc9ed011a8165e12172d0538acd789bc622e5a95ea59ca4de96cddeb9ab
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 12296 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
b7902d4f9fcd09b6791a55bf7b71f620a41db67665835ae6105fb9b999815cce
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 5074 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).