Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ad70b708efe4109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.5 KB
MD5: 332fcdfa8912d89a94c42aa31fe1f483 SHA-1: 50ba0c69576632b0183e2d388a24fd6cfb7fef7f SHA-256: 4ad70b708efe410972cae8523068e7ea6807faeb55955a423d96c098c219fc1a
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2007-5659, indicating an exploit attempt. The extracted JavaScript files, legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js, are likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further supports 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B 373 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
8c2183676de8a3fb7d4d0fd0dbf2c74de0919f3a491340c26a00ad6a83f0db43
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 12232 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
19e0468a4947e53c1f6916164e7178e65458b93b6ad481e33b95a31043d7a94a
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 5035 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).