C6 Messenger Downloader PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3305134c5806eda3

MALICIOUS

PDF

607.3 KB Created: 2011-06-22 18:28:19 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: fbe40c380e87754c51254d15b3b0b030 SHA-1: 1c5c8aad93b1d01d8ceeafaf2c0e76319fde3a95 SHA-256: 3305134c5806eda31587330ccf21d6f644a4e8731da2291cc242ceeca25dc708

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute secondary payloads. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for the payload. The other embedded URL was confirmed benign.

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_off00000688.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x688	73272 bytes

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