Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c10535c67288def…

MALICIOUS

PDF

360.7 KB Created: 2011-04-27 03:04:03 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 239d9b28994ed3ecd70f73df55369555 SHA-1: cb0734fc5a1cac4583e06766dd2f439f28b5a590 SHA-256: 2c10535c67288def7684481acf1b051991df23f52820196e9bcf61d967300c75
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for a DownloaderActiveX vulnerability. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for a malicious executable. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to the user-facing 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off000019ca.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x19CA 73272 bytes

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