PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1f0a449c14c30edd

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:40:09 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 77f1fa300b21e3c9278af6a167f5cc78 SHA-1: 02f499ee4451a82de8970dd86e9551fa792e421a SHA-256: 1f0a449c14c30eddcadeb596fd945f37e18ed38cc96ce91857933723d6241dca

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link/Object

The sample contains a critical heuristic indicating the CVE_2008_2551 exploit, which is used to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is flagged as unknown reputation and is likely the second-stage payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further context.

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_off00000956.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x956	73272 bytes

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