Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aed12ce06f4ddce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB
MD5: 4cc93b11bdd7a8c20150715a4ec51761 SHA-1: 026d2a79b651474d9eef36a05f1ed12cdefecdf3 SHA-256: aed12ce06f4ddce26a2f5b7974d739b93d6b9ed4d4ea483cf41b5f0b71d69823
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file exploits CVE-2007-5659 using a JavaScript stager embedded within annotation subjects. The stager is designed to decode and evaluate obfuscated JavaScript, which is then used to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of multiple deobfuscated JavaScript files and critical heuristic firings strongly indicate a multi-stage exploit chain.

Heuristics 6

  • 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-36064 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064
  • 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
a5c8f0f722df4dd9876a0087e1eee65bd3020c5995f94f6729f7e17f3f3677a0
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D 331 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
68169f596554cf63f3394c8d51df5e7d57e6b26fd667f0defa0c0dd1f97785e9
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2 12223 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
9f23dfaa2f3b283e0bbf09e99356b95ba2cd17d96acbd14ce526dd4354f721b2
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2 5062 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).