PDF malware analysis — malicious · e8dbb55f5b62f13f

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.3 KB

MD5: 564c00b997051a1a5e3a70d8c53e3924 SHA-1: e1161eba330c9b39584fe254f650daf558814872 SHA-256: e8dbb55f5b62f13f24bbc1eb5d8a841b5c9c67400bf0d40e1b81b2ca7c18b93d

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript/Shell Script Execution T1204.001 Malicious Link/URL T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated and uses a stager technique involving annotation subjects. The critical heuristic 'CVE_2007_5659' indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability (Collab.collectEmailInfo) to execute this JavaScript. The presence of deobfuscated JavaScript files suggests a multi-stage process, likely to download and execute 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-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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0007_000.js` `068944f8c011a88ab770b45c6de142b9305a1f515d410204d5eadd9ac2b5bfb3`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19B	373 bytes
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js` `e228116ce3b302e094b59cb36b0386d4a76ac1d03e187447400d3aeb31d9b58b`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5	12009 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js` `078c4f5520819c35349e1d5ba1ec10498338b4b40931df5149f47e5cebcc1199`	deobfuscated-js	repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F5	4968 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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