C6 Messenger Downloader PDF malware analysis — malicious · 03f479e8d459128f

MALICIOUS

PDF

281.6 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:50:38 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 79a62a5cbb41dcf2104b0a7724118a4a SHA-1: a4c24ac5c632e909088d7066d8c359b3bfc90e56 SHA-256: 03f479e8d459128f3a6c94db73991cd0220191f27784f8e14e07dd9cc7571efd

92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by a classifier and contains a known exploit (CVE_2008_2551) for C6 Messenger Downloader. The exploit likely facilitates the download of a second-stage payload from the URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe. The embedded URL http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1 is also present, though marked as benign.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9470

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_off0000043a.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x43A	73272 bytes

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