Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecee3db808087572…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: bebd242b794d025ee0431b4665eb42d2 SHA-1: afdd0181ba352277210e02d6ea07be870c6212b4 SHA-256: ecee3db808087572d7311ffb13b5aaa8049e1836b1930a6cc14f1fc727edb5bd
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript, identified by the CVE-2007-5659 heuristic, which is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The extracted JavaScript streams, legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js, likely contain the second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further supports the malicious nature of the file.

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: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
6f60a1053baafdc578f85eae84a2dc6d16775fbd66240d82cbfb7b4f4ff4e90a
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D 295 bytes
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
dc2251e0e09d0d5619ea4580ce308e91583182a4ecd90f6771df08dcdf41a444
deobfuscated-js z-percent hex-pair decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2E9 5151 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js
05295268ea00cdff5761e23abf93bad928e55994fc17aef28547ec6dbd130326
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2E9 12417 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).