PDF malware analysis — malicious · ffbf82d358c7f269

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.2 KB

MD5: 500a42e64ce5284cd1d379c1bdf7e38c SHA-1: fb24e26eea8ebdd8a2bd3411855a45c9349429c7 SHA-256: ffbf82d358c7f26995d579dc1f108a5fa71a753bbc93f0269c7dca71a2bc160b

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains obfuscated JavaScript that exploits CVE-2007-5659 (Collab.collectEmailInfo). The script is XOR-encoded and uses String.fromCharCode to deobfuscate itself, ultimately aiming to download and execute a second-stage payload. The heuristic firings strongly indicate a PDF exploit targeting Adobe Reader.

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` `ce28fbea0fdf5bb0b8fcc6f0f5a1f7dcf8945ff91793fb1c173e1d2641471c10`	pdf-javascript-stream	PDF /JS object 49 at offset 0xA	78088 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` `d6dba1c8de836ba78f901733f4f2c0f2199ec3a21be3886bffcb6b3dec79505b`	deobfuscated-js	binary-XOR decoded JavaScript at offset 0x464	1300 bytes

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