C6 Messenger Downloader PDF malware analysis — malicious · 6b14bf93f4ebe17f

MALICIOUS

PDF

689.5 KB Created: 2011-07-07 22:07:51 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 11a72746ce2caa0aea05349143eb9963 SHA-1: 3929ec39ccf57edabe0dd46e46322c1e0efb74fc SHA-256: 6b14bf93f4ebe17feef0ae416d19d81bd0e2656c30e346e46dcdfe48be3af6dc

92 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL points to a CAB file, and another URL is present that likely hosts the second-stage executable. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9463

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_off00000416.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x416	73272 bytes

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