PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7cf1fed7a804a8b2

MALICIOUS

PDF

310.4 KB Created: 2011-04-13 09:13:27 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: ae91c364076cf459792d298bbba93184 SHA-1: 73d52b6365b94049e53ced0ee227eccf03617fad SHA-256: 7cf1fed7a804a8b2f3265634331d488ac65430b66f15de5d67ef76338f53812a

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating the CVE_2008_2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is likely the secondary payload. The exploit targets users opening the PDF with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader.

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_off0000040f.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x40F	73272 bytes

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