Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acf5ee7c65cf9a80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.1 KB
MD5: efe3d6daa681d100376092013bacc396 SHA-1: bb56f0a1f2f5421cb20adadbe20ade857bf6c6e8 SHA-256: acf5ee7c65cf9a807c3a7955e2bf9b361c65d40519bc73c3a3e86cdca8daf188
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1204.001 Malicious Link/Object

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, indicated by multiple heuristic firings including PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS. The critical CVE_2009_0927 heuristic suggests exploitation of a known vulnerability related to Collab.getIcon. The embedded JavaScript streams, particularly javascript_obj0007_000.js and javascript_obj0007_001.js, likely contain obfuscated code designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of unescape() calls further supports the obfuscation and dynamic loading of malicious content.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0007_000.js
867dc76ff20291a80fe3e55f03f126a8139ef2683eda12a50dacbe5110a0043a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x26D 6346 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).
javascript_obj0007_001.js
0d6cdadc45b995e15d9cb4e5cc557dc299a6d22303ad213345c54d0a13ca4b21
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x26D 3158 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).