Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc50a13cb25b6ed3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

299.0 KB
MD5: 358094239a2ce6c6a10b3a59d52fe3c8 SHA-1: 818eb926bc41c9c9717e57a31adb8b19d18af69d SHA-256: fc50a13cb25b6ed39ffd297bc3723c659cf0987b3e5596676c806a4857a94bbb
318 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains multiple critical heuristic firings indicating exploitation of CVE-2009-0927, CVE-2007-5659, and CVE-2008-2992. These vulnerabilities are leveraged to execute embedded JavaScript, as confirmed by the 'PDF_JAVASCRIPT' and 'PDF_JS' firings. The deobfuscated JavaScript artifact 'legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js' likely contains the malicious payload. The ClamAV detections further corroborate the malicious nature of the file and its extracted components.

Heuristics 8

  • Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 critical CVE exact CVE_2009_0927
    PDF JavaScript calls Collab.getIcon — CVE-2009-0927 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by Collab.getIcon() with a crafted argument. Allows arbitrary code execution. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
  • 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)
  • util.printf — CVE-2008-2992 critical CVE exact CVE_2008_2992
    PDF JavaScript calls util.printf() — CVE-2008-2992 is a stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader triggered by a long format-specifier argument. Widely exploited in the wild after disclosure. (identified after JavaScript deobfuscation)
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36307 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36307
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0008_000.js
40947c2675b85ded9311397a7771dade1cf05b13e2742c9cb1f7b87edcfdc26b
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 8 at offset 0x1E7 3462 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36307
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
legacy_pdfkit_stage_000.js
13b98034ec609a2a901c8c9cd82cacbdc757920b114ae082969ea61fea45f499
deobfuscated-js repeated-marker hex decoded JavaScript at offset 0xFA1 20129 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.Shellcode-18
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 11 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).