Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7be02f1843b9ef1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB
MD5: 1fe6ee152273bb9341ce0cba9da8716c SHA-1: 6121111d881c6e4177d02aa0df420120074fbf8f SHA-256: 7be02f1843b9ef1b2ab17107b363eaa01824b737a66a04b8a4a7a80d5596b0c1
256 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript that exploits CVE-2007-5659 (Collab.collectEmailInfo). The JavaScript is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER' and 'PDF_BINARY_XOR_JS_STAGER' heuristics. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, given the nature of PDF exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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)
  • PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTER
    PDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • Binary-XOR JavaScript stager high PDF_BINARY_XOR_JS_STAGER
    PDF JavaScript stores viewer-version payload branches as long binary digit strings, XORs each bit pair, converts 8-bit chunks with String.fromCharCode, and evals the recovered exploit stage.
  • 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.
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape 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_obj0004_000.js
7aa491a2933403ec0d28e2ec069944668aaa6c3cfbd50fd1e67031880ca87388
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 4 at offset 0xC0 77722 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
javascript_obj0004_001.js
568b28383f2c87b899a46dacc399e20db5c25845b833a7bbeaed85be46697363
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 4 at offset 0xE3 77833 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
binary_xor_stage_000.js
1551bcad664ebc238494d26c9cae5bfe9071cd2c66cb998fcf9faec5ae30a211
deobfuscated-js binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3D7 1273 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).