Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc0aae84ed8b6768…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: cd24dd13004f79df05f6d4e288d1ab77 SHA-1: 94638324adbb25c34f6f23d67f556227048b393d SHA-256: dc0aae84ed8b676870edc060f28f8c334397569f10b808aae5d3a9c03454330f
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, identified by the PDF_JAVASCRIPT and PDF_JS heuristics. The critical CVE-2007-5659 heuristic indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability via JavaScript, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files, legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js, further supports this. The ClamAV detection of Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062 confirms the malicious nature.

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-36062 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36062
  • 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
068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B 373 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
48d9f9d03727cf3f29526e30d89f1a9f19c613ff4a51213ecc1dbb0dbed79173
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 11795 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
44abb5bf33c8e0fcb4c65295335051dc6c51538855fd7cb306856169943e8510
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5 4875 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).