PDF malware analysis — malicious · a8eba1ece7c0112d

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB

MD5: 6c820fd963da3eb1dba5685fa9284cfb SHA-1: 6a161076a1c4b3bcd4b105d3b2e03ea6cda915b5 SHA-256: a8eba1ece7c0112d5ae1015da08f8c87e89c2f63f23c6601eca22f9c40ef9861

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated and designed to be evaluated. Critical heuristics indicate the use of CVE-2007-5659, specifically the 'Collab.collectEmailInfo' method, which is known to be used in PDF exploits to execute JavaScript. The extracted JavaScript files, 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js', are likely part of a multi-stage exploit chain, with the initial PDF acting as a dropper to execute the embedded scripts. The ultimate goal is likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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-36065 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `9c67560e8c63b720885d3efc1627b844b86a6ec08e99e5b65a22eae832045756`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C	431 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `69e5bdc3867dfa9d681bc39cfa1566337054853c4e63fe46fe44acfe068f1284`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315	12252 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `1f6a5760f1e7f9ba1f147c7a0a25c5a397d580e7d4b2c9513f843265270e693d`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315	5064 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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