C6 Messenger Downloader PDF malware analysis — malicious · 03758e446ce4c462

MALICIOUS

PDF

352.3 KB Created: 2011-06-22 18:43:24 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 9d6c982ad973e09da30d5d0727d07ddd SHA-1: f6d01d3c6d4786224522fd920a0046e6fff89caf SHA-256: 03758e446ce4c4621d00e70193dc139074f5756d85f5caffd233ba3b7bd28633

92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL points to a potential second-stage executable, 'system.exe', further supporting this attack pattern. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9685

Heuristics 2

C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit critical CVE exact CVE_2008_2551

PDF stream bytes contain HTML/ActiveX content configuring the vulnerable C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX control with propDownloadUrl and propPostDownloadAction=run. This is the published exploit shape for CVE-2008-2551.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe
- http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_001_off00000961.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x961	73272 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.