Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fe2a7b313e5b3d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2011-05-17 08:50:33 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 256e7ede196bb9bec44b68630c3f5081 SHA-1: f4a44492ac2726dc636fb96c8c19021b67e1bfb1 SHA-256: 3fe2a7b313e5b3d74bea8c4a4d68f725033f4a148311d7d0c7d3f31b998d8fa5
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating the presence of the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the secondary payload. The exploit targets a vulnerability in PDF viewers to achieve remote code execution.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902120866
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1092023
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902121781
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902121516
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902130126
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902130200
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=9626
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=9628
    • 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_003_off00001925.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1925 73272 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.