Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c89973089e4b632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:51:23 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 08e9681fba6e9eae084848c1992a00c2 SHA-1: 1ab38b64ff8b7568947bb24191dc2e9f7bcadbae SHA-256: 6c89973089e4b6325365d4fa85291b796508e0d06470de978b847e2ee57020ae
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that contains an exploit for CVE-2008-2551, a known vulnerability that allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The heuristic firings indicate that this exploit is used to download a secondary payload. While several benign URLs are present, the critical heuristic firing points to malicious intent. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7509

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903170976
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1162985
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163118
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163090
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1160973
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903171179
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903171215
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=10509
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=10513
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=10507
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163152
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163128
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163104
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903170976������������������
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1162985�����������������������������
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163118���������������
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163090���������������������
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903171179������������
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903171215������������������
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163152��������������������
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1163128���������������������������
    • http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off00001a07.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1A07 73272 bytes

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