PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3e709b807b920d32

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:48:35 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: e0c1badace60277579be3e7267dc42db SHA-1: ce2d098fc66e9298e3442c7deb7826e38aa35d7e SHA-256: 3e709b807b920d32e10efacf851bf0b21a220c9406c6e8061218e93359ed8574

62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link/Object

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating an exploit for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX. This exploit likely facilitates the download of a secondary payload from the embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe. The document body was heavily obfuscated and did not provide further contextual clues.

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_003_off000014ea.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x14EA	73272 bytes

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