PDF malware analysis — malicious · 76a08d9742a2e805

MALICIOUS

PDF

402.6 KB Created: 2011-04-13 09:28:36 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 48bd41e986761b4d391be2d67b8bf457 SHA-1: 512c89a62681cbd84af8f0537c9dac5e841b1fe6 SHA-256: 76a08d9742a2e805e9e04ba0afec4cc1a0b9230dab68d4dd2affb6fdc3f0e2a1

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit (CVE_2008_2551). This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely hosts this payload. The document body was unreadable, but the exploit and the suspicious URL strongly indicate a malicious download and execution attempt.

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_off000003e2.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3E2	73272 bytes

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