PDF malware analysis — malicious · 26f1540422c37548

MALICIOUS

PDF

172.7 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:18:05 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 034c03138d8a57170d5aab6c353b55be SHA-1: 33d6a826d7013a6ec5e76e4b516de6d2507fbabb SHA-256: 26f1540422c37548047c56f5d9b87c429177ad7ab2d6b47d5c70f963d781d39e

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link/Object T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating an exploit for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX. This exploit likely targets the embedded URL http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1 to download and execute a payload. The presence of an additional unknown URL, http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe, suggests this is a downloader for further malicious content.

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_off000003df.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3DF	73272 bytes

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