Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df25dace1df40799…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 8920591b6c8d7e03047a0766f8663f44 SHA-1: 019257af66644e306fad5ed50669b6d982b7c17c SHA-256: df25dace1df40799b659f7893105fae54d021f24807bf28903f6a224843de3c5
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2007-5659 (Collab.collectEmailInfo) and a PDF JavaScript eval stager. The presence of 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' and 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js' suggests a multi-stage JavaScript execution chain. ClamAV also identified this as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36065, indicating a known exploit. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, likely for downloading and running further malicious content.

Heuristics 7

  • 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-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.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser exited 1. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
809088991f54aacf7530815e597078c60f11ecd0279344d883d537ab86096d0e
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 12620 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
1340de8a57ac2adafb6e22155a4f011fd8f3489792c5db38ff8e4162ff7790be
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x315 5215 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).