Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6eee7f038f1d25a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2008-09-24 19:47:56 Authoring application: Adobe
MD5: 3ea61a2225d41889dbc588236269491f SHA-1: e3bb75e07bc0074ed65b5313c044223658cb7cad SHA-256: a6eee7f038f1d25a35f80cff075e21f2b0c837bb8378493b3fd2baa5c4e9ce7d
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that leverages two critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2009-0927 (Collab.getIcon) and CVE-2007-5659 (Collab.collectEmailInfo). The heuristics indicate that this JavaScript is used to launch further malicious activity, likely by downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the ClamAV detection of Js.Exploit.Shellcode-18 on an extracted artifact named 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js'. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no contextual clues.

Heuristics 6

  • Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927
    PDF JavaScript calls Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by Collab.getIcon() with a crafted argument. Allows arbitrary code execution. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
  • 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 detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_obj0006_000.js
12b080c15f057e4b95ad0269db9326f12c904f13a15d7489eaf426e468dd2710
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x1398 145 bytes
javascript_obj0016_001.js
6dc9092a50a1186d6af70d75dfc07ed4893a20faf8337a9cb67fccb313a2be07
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 16 at offset 0x146F 188 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
795465b53ac000e4b785dd64bb6c6a1c42f217e36acd2e56cf3ad199c830abbc
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x1E7 4841 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.Shellcode-18
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 9 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).