Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3773d67e2b2cffef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2011-04-16 14:06:46 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 3f0ae9d5c470dcdd6972fbe4d2bac82d SHA-1: b317ec63e65eaab8289dc742456478bfdf678800 SHA-256: 3773d67e2b2cffef1335e3844b9d7164083768bb608e48c91c5bcc2fdb22ef14
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a remote URL. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is flagged as unknown reputation and is the likely source of the secondary payload.

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_001_off000004f0.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x4F0 73272 bytes