Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9370b16d315352fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB
MD5: afa4a70a433339cd9339dbb6cbc7ed3f SHA-1: 952c812a767324e4df9aac463fb290882f03f772 SHA-256: 9370b16d315352fb7c15cb6c32cf61c60d2effb7e2f5034ea5f92d07fd12fb0b
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, specifically triggering the CVE-2007-5659 vulnerability via the Collab.collectEmailInfo method. This JavaScript is further deobfuscated into two files, legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js. The presence of these deobfuscated scripts and the critical heuristic firings strongly indicate that the PDF is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, likely for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Heuristics 5

  • 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-36062 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062
  • 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
068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B 373 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
e904c6843f6431ec02f25486215c111f86a212ad79bf06ec2a9b1c60abc321a8
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 12503 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
b8522c5da5e5fdf01780c0b6fea104b31d9b823757c5a2109fbd4bd8e26fdf95
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 5229 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).