C6 Messenger Downloader — PDF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f29b91e5a35bfcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

336.1 KB Created: 2011-05-26 13:35:35 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: d6cb2685f281ee5b6ffc3159e72fa4c2 SHA-1: 1e1cd30e65ff227b873824eaa128ac7be5b8afe9 SHA-256: 4f29b91e5a35bfcd0d73f382a3294fff8b512904637597e2aea5b2e95267a644
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 90%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for the C6 Messenger Downloader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a payload from a remote URL. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for the malicious executable.

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_off000003d1.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3D1 73272 bytes