Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77cb39804107f015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.6 KB
MD5: 64bad21a88b737e2e3f1a5cfda2e36d1 SHA-1: cdb82e9cbd9e6acb3ae0866f1144ea1f445d936c SHA-256: 77cb39804107f01515412dc387e86b776f044677caff240e83d222bc5d8e42e4
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The critical heuristic CVE_2007_5659 indicates exploitation of a known vulnerability in PDF documents. This vulnerability is associated with the Collab.collectEmailInfo method and is used to execute embedded JavaScript. The presence of multiple JavaScript streams and deobfuscated JS files further supports this. The primary attack vector appears to be exploiting this PDF vulnerability to run malicious scripts, likely to download and execute additional malware.

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-35905 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-35905
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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
d8a6b4ad1abf04d0c4a4f89535cfb57f7312edef25c443f4e844c8ec9d0929dd
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B 352 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
d09765d0a864991d89938332d538de888ffa1a50a792b967e0019471f1541b31
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2FE 12348 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
f1a2232f2e895ea2da6c2097bff393997aa6676c61c85ba1716cef4ae25efa7d
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2FE 5214 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).