Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d7991302fb888fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB
MD5: 960223f312f1dbfbf797d51e9f951aa2 SHA-1: 9beeb150dc5b9575ab1741c21f9f34d6a8f71068 SHA-256: 9d7991302fb888fee0cf078445e6a51bb78d9afb0e45178eacd7ff7eff0ca949
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, identified by multiple critical heuristics including PDF_JAVASCRIPT, PDF_JS, PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER, and CVE_2007_5659. The CVE-2007-5659 heuristic specifically indicates the use of Collab.collectEmailInfo for JavaScript execution, a known technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities. 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 likely acts as a dropper for further malicious code. ClamAV also detected this as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062, confirming its malicious nature.

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)
  • 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-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.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser exited 1. 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.

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
3fa1b9470826527679e2aba7bc41c49e25b291841fe78e312f5dd7aa953c11a0
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 12531 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
6a422eea2485ba04a5247758fc6bff6ccce81928335676fcee5038c30782ab05
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 5254 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).