PDF malware analysis — malicious · 46dfa7b3a6e212fa

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.5 KB

MD5: 0e644b801cc44ef1b4f782835162cf10 SHA-1: 4da0d34b4f3bf42f29fd999bb01fbc2dafedba5e SHA-256: 46dfa7b3a6e212facbdd87de190e7ff47e43baef21f7cc8c251a266ffb288629

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic CVE_2007_5659 indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability in PDF documents using the Collab.collectEmailInfo method. This vulnerability is used to launch a JavaScript stager, as evidenced by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The stager, named 'annotation_subject_callee_hex_stage_000.js', is responsible for decoding and executing further malicious code, likely downloading a second-stage payload. The presence of ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36088 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36088
Annotation subject callee-key hex JavaScript stager high PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_CALLEE_HEX_STAGER

PDF JavaScript uses syncAnnotScan()/getAnnots() to read an indirect annotation /Subject stream, percent-decodes it through marker replacement, then uses a callee.toString()-derived key to decode and eval the final 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_obj0007_000.js` `9fd87306e37a04c361ea1b68a1cf4474b7a018e2270929a8c382cd129d8fc406`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C	566 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`annotation_subject_callee_hex_stage_000.js` `67fdc492f43ddd4830c4f7ad53369fc7262d3457698433a39bc49d99dd9136c1`	deobfuscated-js	annotation-subject callee-key decoded JavaScript at offset 0x14A	5042 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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