Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba5605522a7cea71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.4 KB
MD5: 133ae9eb24c5c0350aa4386a4531acef SHA-1: 76d61dc0cbeaebb031ae603dc0af7dc20ea1f832 SHA-256: ba5605522a7cea71281680883c215ee7f0b26ae28bfe2648037028dc4923b183
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, identified as malicious by ClamAV (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065). Heuristics indicate the exploitation of CVE-2007-5659 using a JavaScript action that concatenates and evaluates strings. Two deobfuscated JavaScript files, 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js', were extracted, suggesting a multi-stage attack likely involving the execution of further malicious code.

Heuristics 5

  • 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-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.
  • 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
9c67560e8c63b720885d3efc1627b844b86a6ec08e99e5b65a22eae832045756
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19C 431 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
61ade92df914cfd2de4ee4573d1c080bfaa144b2bdce6d547d04e9420402be77
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 11674 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
30ebf351150c95b44d527d049f01a27af903a87731451afff2409ad775f00682
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 4722 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).