PDF / .TXT malware analysis — malicious · 49f186e9c4313788

MALICIOUS

PDF / .TXT

11.9 KB

MD5: 747477f6a7d328fa6fae2d7a568d6534 SHA-1: a157025160cf4ff412678d4d26479bb25fab204c SHA-256: 49f186e9c431378842f2ad3032698984cdd52154aa01eaf7adce5235d85d9bed

146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that leverages the CVE-2007-5659 vulnerability, specifically targeting the Collab.collectEmailInfo function. Static analysis recovered deobfuscated JavaScript streams (legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js), indicating the script's purpose is to download and execute further stages of malware. The presence of multiple JavaScript streams and the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2007-5659 strongly suggest a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 6

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-35903 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35903
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.
syncAnnotScan annotation-staging primitive low PDF_FOXIT_SYNCANNOTSCAN

PDF JavaScript calls syncAnnotScan() — a no-op annotation-enumeration primitive used by exploit-kit JavaScript to stage payload reads from annotation /Subject fields before eval(). Not a vulnerable sink itself; rarely seen in legitimate PDFs. (matched in decompressed 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `860eae5f96eb426380281c575a089242b50523bbb4bbb8dd765e582cd9c07d2e`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D	294 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `63873b89cf1b00cc204840061259fe3915ab63fd3663f7c2c50a1f6304acb2ba`	deobfuscated-js	z-percent hex-pair decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2E8	5073 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `a5d0514ca54aa521827dfaa52c5e6e0eb20d4d714c723b8542c67e39402d4681`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2E8	12016 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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