PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2b11bea654a490e0

MALICIOUS

PDF

361.2 KB Created: 2011-07-08 00:12:14 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 03ab5af2beb8d2b89b9bbed94d2fb5b1 SHA-1: 8b2ac921a83584b3ed8ea28050be01ba651f2366 SHA-256: 2b11bea654a490e0b77b64ed1cc5c99f39859b70ac25af2833dda2ac5ce5d5b5

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating it exploits a vulnerability to download a payload. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is likely the secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further context on the lure.

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_off000004d3.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x4D3	73272 bytes

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