Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf36e5c4202bfb6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 15631a1dadfb918c26eb520481478d89 SHA-1: 67e00d1ef96742f157c77725d2ab28dbf402f8fb SHA-256: bf36e5c4202bfb6e71baf26c684425d1accbf96cc8f6ef1f9b68026f6ce36334
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, identified by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. Specifically, the CVE-2007-5659 heuristic indicates the use of the Collab.collectEmailInfo JavaScript function to exploit a known vulnerability. The extracted artifacts 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js' suggest a multi-stage JavaScript execution, typical of PDF-based exploit kits designed to download and execute further malicious content.

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
28475e4062bc08b975743880d697a435eac01ab98aecca5ff47d754e075c9aa6
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 12025 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
e0003f1013fbb3bca6e49b42f5002061ea0849ffd278fcd01704b388ebe0f7c5
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 4914 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).