PDF malware analysis — malicious · 97e7869d5148ed17

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB

MD5: 65a7674fb0cbaf957c2a3559474025e0 SHA-1: 11c64839210e176658120a00a0920e639367e636 SHA-256: 97e7869d5148ed17b3a8f226af4eea4f2f14f4a81f32d42129cac35f5816b8a7

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS'. Critical heuristics like 'PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER' and 'CVE_2007_5659' point to the exploitation of a PDF vulnerability to execute JavaScript. The presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files ('legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js', 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js') suggests a multi-stage attack, where the initial PDF acts as a dropper for further malicious code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064' further confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 6

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-36064 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `a5c8f0f722df4dd9876a0087e1eee65bd3020c5995f94f6729f7e17f3f3677a0`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D	331 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `93cb9d975dbd66ffb78adf6b2017144ac27f38a63647b64be6512b32cff6f093`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2	12326 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `1946f0411a8ca7dc4a4653aadde65b593045ad9f0f995d64a644633d307da29b`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2	5084 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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