MALICIOUS
198
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File
T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
This PDF file exploits CVE-2007-5659 using a JavaScript stager embedded within annotation subjects. The deobfuscated JavaScript streams, legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js and legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js, are responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. ClamAV also identified this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064.
Heuristics 6
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Collab.collectEmailInfo — CVE-2007-5659 critical CVE exact CVE_2007_5659PDF 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)
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Annotation subject percent-decoding eval stager critical PDF_ANNOT_SUBJECT_MARKER_EVAL_STAGEROpenAction 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.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36064
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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Embedded JS stream low PDF_JSPDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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 |
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javascript_obj0007_000.jsa5c8f0f722df4dd9876a0087e1eee65bd3020c5995f94f6729f7e17f3f3677a0 |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 7 at offset 0x19D | 331 bytes |
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js1ec08b0296986446e68d60929f63ec98d8f3f4c5f6335eb1b732c3bf6c05efc8 |
deobfuscated-js | repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2 | 11997 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
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legacy_pdfkit_stage_001.js6bbf4de9517b1ed79c674eef810a175fc5f6244a69bcd3ff14850a89bfdc6df2 |
deobfuscated-js | repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0x2F2 | 5038 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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