PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4be26ca0cacec3dd

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB

MD5: 95f89a22e8200750feec4b255407597e SHA-1: a282e282c02bbedb4909b7aedd2f4c4eeb945075 SHA-256: 4be26ca0cacec3dd5a303142a31e12766b45fbb10cc31e366a2560b0e93f442d

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated and uses a stager technique involving percent-decoding and evaluation. Specifically, the 'Collab.collectEmailInfo' function is leveraged, indicating an exploit for CVE-2007-5659. The embedded JavaScript streams, identified as 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js', are responsible for decoding and executing the main payload, likely leading to further malicious activity. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065' further confirms its malicious nature.

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)
Annotation subject percent-decoding eval stager critical PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER

OpenAction JavaScript forces annotation enumeration, reads an annotation /Subject payload with getAnnots(), rewrites marker bytes into percent escapes, decodes it with unescape(), and dispatches it through eval. This is a high-confidence exploit-kit staging pattern. It is intentionally not mapped to CVE-2009-1492 unless getAnnots() itself carries the crafted integer or long argument shape for that vulnerability.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065
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.
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser exited 1. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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` `9c67560e8c63b720885d3efc1627b844b86a6ec08e99e5b65a22eae832045756`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C	431 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `9da2b1fc7f40ec18f265a892b305040fb554b08f7afab0e700aabe5b17359f90`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315	12219 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `c8d95bb679073d9cc80b887cdc368aa953f7ab43ea1a20bb8b40fae28b8a4872`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315	5001 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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