PDF malware analysis — malicious · 52b8604982b7cbc1

MALICIOUS

PDF

607.3 KB Created: 2011-05-26 13:44:37 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: eee9736bf17da59f4bf95557de3b23fb SHA-1: c0c1e7cc91b7ebe85d209c780699f7b10b09d30d SHA-256: 52b8604982b7cbc1c8d712eb8f53b60b36a256dfe9786e464dba6ce473083bc9

62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for a downloader. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the second-stage payload. The exploit is designed to trick the user into downloading and running a 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_002_off00000688.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x688	73272 bytes

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