PDF malware analysis — malicious · 95bcf079cf1e49a4

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB

MD5: 773574c38c7d8e9c36ee17be483b21eb SHA-1: 4fd8d68db5ec6b3edb74982506339715dd2efb70 SHA-256: 95bcf079cf1e49a4e11611a2c5118aefaee23290adde833007a312d389cae8cc

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains obfuscated JavaScript, identified as a binary-XOR stager, which exploits CVE-2007-5659. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of JavaScript actions and embedded JS streams, along with the specific CVE firing, strongly indicates this attack vector.

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)
ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
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. (matched inside decoded stream)
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0049_000.js` `063d1fd48645b51a57b54003ad0ce28e23a49a582877c4716a23638c9ff88a04`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 49 at offset 0xA	79708 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
`binary_xor_stage_000.js` `000a9df8d8ad61a604a23653f7e52c30bd502e4f597c529427fdb2ab52f08e24`	deobfuscated-js	binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3F8	1336 bytes

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