PDF malware analysis — malicious · faebba7586197c61

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.1 KB

MD5: 52aecee0c73748f5eeafc752023049b0 SHA-1: fe7a77ec40f5b967cf215853f9ecd680342f841a SHA-256: faebba7586197c614748bc466fb4f92f16101d605faa590b0df2020bab9242d1

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1204.001 Malicious Link/Document T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript that utilizes the `Collab.collectEmailInfo` method to exploit CVE-2007-5659. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of binary-XOR encoding and string manipulation within the JavaScript indicates a deliberate attempt to hide the malicious functionality. The ClamAV heuristic also flags the file as malicious due to obfuscated object names.

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)
ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
Binary-XOR JavaScript stager high PDF_BINARY_XOR_JS_STAGER

PDF JavaScript stores viewer-version payload branches as long binary digit strings, XORs each bit pair, converts 8-bit chunks with String.fromCharCode, and evals the recovered exploit stage.
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.
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`javascript_obj0049_000.js` `405347372ead060cc2a177fb05a7448f8604e298b54b910f41ffb4079aff8be3`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 49 at offset 0xA	77692 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
`binary_xor_stage_000.js` `55444ec2f8d5d15aa2c4ea19727dc2d8337e9d773a0cd6a453f74d50abb16710`	deobfuscated-js	binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x3F8	1294 bytes

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