PDF malware analysis — malicious · 0d0e08c1496d14d0

MALICIOUS

PDF

344.1 KB Created: 2011-04-27 03:31:49 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 2d81e864a8ea32a6967fe8d5d16322ed SHA-1: e467174c459e07a994c069615d7ef4a91701caaf SHA-256: 0d0e08c1496d14d0dfd5edf745e97ed5057cd58c415b9e2d4ac1e0b02fb03c92

92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a marker indicating an exploit for CVE-2008-2551, which is known to download and execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the second-stage payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9673

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_off000003dd.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3DD	73272 bytes

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