PDF malware analysis — malicious · b6c22be219af8b11

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB

MD5: d9b032668b784887419c853edf570075 SHA-1: b56224b60ad965e1e71116ff81b3887ccb06eb2e SHA-256: b6c22be219af8b119aba55f3d4cbf10472b90f39aa888797195ca7af8f5a519a

146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2007-5659 indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability in the PDF reader. This is further supported by the presence of embedded JavaScript streams and the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36079'. The JavaScript is likely designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access.

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)
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36079 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36079
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.
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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` `ef8bdac794684ae9cd4eb7091d80e1c5ca478c06c639d72d01626c1f7ce78b6d`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C	578 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `5a4680d00d53f1d0ff1d515f74ebb3e129297c76ffdd7a2b1a61964b3b6a36df`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x36F	12216 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `a1e0da7959746de4e73a6160b902f97ba4f9aea1d9abea7a952db35ba8e21d1e`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x36F	4991 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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