Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 934fde5f960149b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.5 KB Created: 2008-04-23 16:42:36 +08:00 Authoring application: Acrobat PDFMaker 6.0 for Word (via Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows))
MD5: 44cf41479559b0dc72a2330a9e8ec6c1 SHA-1: 5131603cc2bc7c64980243e19792dedb695229e6 SHA-256: 934fde5f960149b5c0ed4c8846b7efd54eb63a4b75f9b94ef78a747db4ce2920
288 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains critical findings indicating it embeds a Windows executable payload and exploits CVE-2007-5659. Additionally, it contains JavaScript with unescape functions and a secondary embedded PDF, both of which are flagged as suspicious. The primary intent appears to be the delivery and execution of a malicious payload, likely a second-stage malware downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 11

  • 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. (matched in decompressed stream)
  • Embedded Windows executable payload in PDF stream critical PDF_EMBEDDED_PE_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an embedded Windows executable with a verified PE header. Exploit chains often hide droppers inside ordinary streams rather than standard /EmbeddedFile attachments.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PermissionError. 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
ctfmon.exe
08a4f2446b9756ff03d232dd278508e29f82ab40e06c828c9dc92b8137785ee8		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x1063 13253 bytes
javascript_obj0026_000.js
2135da6832c10ec741043c86d4e30015ea2528f20662a9cdc38f71ca882e64e8		 pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 26 at offset 0xA98 3428 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 17 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
polyglot_child_pdf_off000161ab.pdf
10d2f83369a0442b4c8db813cea2c3185889f6cc4c77f1d871a3580015023fcb		 polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x161AB 21599 bytes

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