PDF malware analysis — malicious · d1a7514706204df7

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.2 KB

MD5: 3cadc8ac602438239e3e8b24e8f6eff4 SHA-1: e4d28274242872f09874a71cf2d31f755592105b SHA-256: d1a7514706204df7cecc6b91a291daf59a6106d03b437e137b47803f2a15e6bd

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, triggered by a PDF annotation subject evaluation stager exploiting CVE-2007-5659. This mechanism is designed to decode and execute JavaScript, as indicated by the presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064' further confirms its malicious nature, suggesting it acts as an exploit agent.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `a5c8f0f722df4dd9876a0087e1eee65bd3020c5995f94f6729f7e17f3f3677a0`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D	331 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `23bdcb0eed3a77f82528738600a4332eec35f8f6da2f1c6bcd3b0db7bd770994`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2	12259 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `7f3a6ee7fc8c8390b2d459054013734699a70325dc67892eae15ece6b042cbf5`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2	5156 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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