C6 Messenger Downloader PDF malware analysis — malicious · 05f792f381136a0d

MALICIOUS

PDF

651.6 KB Created: 2011-05-26 12:59:01 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 88f75a23ea8d00920ed4b7d494b016ce SHA-1: 8f300214713796a0411fcc8c2a17fb600f786f84 SHA-256: 05f792f381136a0dce0507c9c7adbc72206bcf93527c7dc0b7e013dd365a05c6

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe likely hosts the second-stage malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9526

Heuristics 3

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.
Optional Content Group with action trigger low PDF_OPTIONAL_CONTENT

Optional Content Group (layer) co-occurs with an action trigger — content can be selectively hidden from viewers or scanners while the action still fires on open
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_002_off0000111a.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x111A	73272 bytes

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