Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ceb774a2850f2aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: aaf9035d48e77dc024b6de63ac7cad53 SHA-1: 60fb36fd307e553fe1cb927ae0b9cf4e7334387e SHA-256: 9ceb774a2850f2aa144a9db46adb9b24cea0c22d8425de87bc71939b75d063bd
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, identified by multiple heuristics including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. A critical heuristic, CVE_2007_5659, indicates the exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability using JavaScript that is constructed by concatenating info fields and extracting characters at a fixed stride. The presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files (legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js, legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js) suggests the script's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062.

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
33021c11b78e0fb06c135bd4926c013252562e99495857e1c9ea57a83980d87f
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 12422 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
eff1a52f1e63356e27fbc864d4e3a4ef1bcd819a430c4822e5b18823a21c67ed
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 5144 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).