PDF malware analysis — malicious · 618b70966acb8d12

MALICIOUS

PDF

607.3 KB Created: 2011-05-17 09:15:43 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: e60ed06462e65fcd838b449f8f778671 SHA-1: 21c28ee8e88aae3f5dfed176398eeb96d71ce03c SHA-256: 618b70966acb8d124daa687199c6ed2a5f9cce0dc0312424b7d510afeabf6373

92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a marker indicating an exploit for CVE-2008-2551, which is known to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely serves as the second-stage payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9714

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 In PDF document text
- http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1In PDF document text

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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