PDF malware analysis — malicious · 327fe53686c62af5

MALICIOUS

PDF

624.0 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:30:09 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: d644b04c8d61f049055dd6097d5f3ec2 SHA-1: 0ecb4a1021080794dedd5f1d3d02e9528480590f SHA-256: 327fe53686c62af53c4082506577d9c41a3a5ab37117e128defe370dea652eba

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a marker indicating the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary files. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the secondary payload. The exploit targets users opening the PDF with a vulnerable application.

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_002_off00000869.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x869	73272 bytes

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