PDF malware analysis — malicious · 58d1bbc6be9b3e40

MALICIOUS

PDF

343.8 KB Created: 2011-04-13 09:25:43 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: cd80656b800ac63f9ae9f67e902b9452 SHA-1: ea0b56bb50f3fbb74380a3ecfe24e95b7361203d SHA-256: 58d1bbc6be9b3e40e54d1bf9fe6abd44e4717271e98a7573c2b9381bcd3989a7

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551 indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability. This exploit likely facilitates the download of a secondary payload, as suggested by the embedded URL pointing to a .exe file. The PDF document structure itself does not contain readable content, but the exploit and the presence of an executable URL are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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_off00000401.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x401	73272 bytes

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