PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3251b5b9e8187d03

MALICIOUS

PDF

339.1 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:44:40 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 979b7edf9cb25b4fdf63e4218479e4ac SHA-1: ae7505b52fa362b13556d263431475364dd62d1a SHA-256: 3251b5b9e8187d03f2c2336bd45d1865efe61fa58bb97e7a843819ec6eb6ddbf

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute secondary payloads. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' likely points to this payload. The exploit targets users opening the PDF, leading to a drive-by download and execution.

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_off000003b8.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3B8	73272 bytes

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