PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1895d7aa39c0f509

MALICIOUS

PDF

490.8 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:37:42 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: b7990e61ffdb874cd5860e6dc3abab3c SHA-1: 7db1e018e4530f5860673a99561effe2f3bb3670 SHA-256: 1895d7aa39c0f509c0f758fa9333fc0b112d2df32ac3f6187847e6c81e6f2083

92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 DownloaderActiveX exploit. This exploit is known to download and execute arbitrary files from a remote URL. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely serves as the secondary payload.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9724

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_002_off00000a07.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA07	73272 bytes

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