PDF malware analysis — malicious · bc747c609f17fd0c

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB

MD5: 792770d4f54177a2855f9f3c1751db37 SHA-1: 716bd101382e987c7e1a75f95b9ee09bcc2837fd SHA-256: bc747c609f17fd0c313f986b9533920e8820dd39aa266cdf1c7d3b60d68b383b

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript, identified by the 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS' heuristics. Critical heuristics indicate the use of 'Collab.collectEmailInfo' and 'CVE_2007_5659', suggesting an exploit targeting a known Adobe Reader vulnerability. The embedded JavaScript streams, particularly 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js', are likely responsible for downloading and executing further malicious content. The 'PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGER' heuristic further supports the stager-like behavior.

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: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `6f60a1053baafdc578f85eae84a2dc6d16775fbd66240d82cbfb7b4f4ff4e90a`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D	295 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `92156818dd81c6565182c4fbf05190c4084a9159748234ad296d97aeea2910c6`	deobfuscated-js	z-percent hex-pair decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2E9	4959 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `b61128ff3a3683dc0f22e96bb90596ee3f27326d77e6e7425da2ea26ec70d5fc`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2E9	11957 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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