PDF malware analysis — malicious · 54b06c29741b3f53

MALICIOUS

PDF

273.0 KB Created: 2011-05-17 08:46:53 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 8f2be88484c8a153aa5fb5568cf8b00f SHA-1: aa119473f090814ad06ceb869ecea61b3d89b913 SHA-256: 54b06c29741b3f53a795b94a0946ccfdb2b513289b061cfc97c2495930e6fa9d

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a marker indicating 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 users opening the PDF, leading to a drive-by download attack.

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_001_off00000698.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x698	73272 bytes

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