Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe91f11a69f0de71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.9 KB
MD5: dbb078b20de8ec2ea96e5e972daf8320 SHA-1: ebd57da726390bd08a8324394c0395776f4df699 SHA-256: fe91f11a69f0de716da15ff200aa8bad960897e386c7e722a408dfddffdfa55a
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2007-5659 (Collab.collectEmailInfo). This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Heuristics 6

  • 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. (matched in decompressed stream)
  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0006_000.js
11a10b5c01bdf20543b229a35106fcaf914bb66aff1d3d3b5f418735d9274c91
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 6 at offset 0x19F 5845 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).