PDF malware analysis — malicious · 56e0c895fde708fe

MALICIOUS

PDF

276.8 KB Created: 2011-04-27 16:59:17 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 432d80790a04411410de40ca2049de68 SHA-1: 975725279b9157447c76889a2440995f2201539d SHA-256: 56e0c895fde708fea90a366e1880798d65c37a9268542617cf409077a859a9b0

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is likely the location of the secondary payload. The exploit facilitates the download and execution of this payload, leading to a malicious outcome.

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_018_off00002410.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2410	73272 bytes

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