PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2a10727ec2aa10aa

MALICIOUS

PDF

201.8 KB Created: 2011-05-26 14:57:39 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 2aeadb15df689bf3a4f18f1c76897252 SHA-1: d36a2d2a7c12943be77371109271c19572389043 SHA-256: 2a10727ec2aa10aa52bbb75d88bdf3283f426fd049cc851846e295e1b267ae7a

64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating an exploit for a downloader. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is marked as unknown reputation and is likely the secondary payload. The exploit is designed to download and execute this payload, leading to a system compromise.

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.
External URI info PDF_URI

PDF contains an external URL action
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://prayer.aviny.com/city_time.aspx?Code=151&Y=1388&M=6&D=1
- 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_off00000795.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x795	73272 bytes

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