PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4826cabe3a124212

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB

MD5: 3736e30a74e9b79bcda11bf1b3e3f87e SHA-1: 1d229d992f3ae3fb1f29139f97bea5e2c1ecfe17 SHA-256: 4826cabe3a124212095a0ee02614e27bfc3b07dba317c719f9aa14e02f51da51

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, identified by multiple heuristics including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. A critical heuristic, CVE_2007_5659, indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability using JavaScript that is concatenated and evaluated. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files named 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js'. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062' further confirms its malicious nature.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B	373 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `8e41777510750f2cee6597c9eaa9bbf7546a381a3ef7262fb911c36d6b412a2e`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5	11912 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `722a98407069745260834c774a1e0432d7001324b594fa2c8ef8bf129c115c46`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5	4904 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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