Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a89ff06d2b74d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 57662cf04b8ce369083a391a06a2e544 SHA-1: 7d1cca4458d617aabe71444f61a8bbb9fcf1fc4d SHA-256: 7a89ff06d2b74d3e5ea190e2fa1e212f5b09ae6fbb807a240c41ca9108c6f121
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and utilizes the CVE-2007-5659 vulnerability (Collab.collectEmailInfo) to execute a stager. This stager is designed to deobfuscate and execute further JavaScript, as indicated by the extracted legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js files. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload, typical of a downloader malware.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
9c67560e8c63b720885d3efc1627b844b86a6ec08e99e5b65a22eae832045756
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C 431 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
c7e10e91ac866d9d6e25d4ec64ba9cd6ab16e7cf5e0c24c25b146eccffc47d13
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 12216 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
57de304d8c6efbae7ac7d10740b4b6e43da3383117dcf0fe2ddae44e813cfdb7
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 5040 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).