PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2e0cd194aa23b4fb

MALICIOUS

PDF

284.2 KB Created: 2011-07-07 20:39:34 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: d73606a06ddb8e138fd66c66ec579cef SHA-1: 93e84ffc87ea824db0f8d337a524b61f942001e3 SHA-256: 2e0cd194aa23b4fbdd1adeab1269946aa21b4a41deb6e4d38c46c53a39b6b74c

62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body was unreadable, but the exploit and the presence of an executable URL strongly suggest a malicious download attempt.

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_off0000054a.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x54A	73272 bytes

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