PDF malware analysis — malicious · 80de31fd7c77b435

MALICIOUS

PDF

402.6 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:45:58 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: c6c9db6fe7fc6782fac24b4d6ab71c6f SHA-1: 8126dc61f8a749b0f8b8da1c446e6f09564eec44 SHA-256: 80de31fd7c77b4351b5b46ac3f70b199b23959ba82da1a2fa1c7062744c4fb72

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded URL pointing to a Windows executable. A critical heuristic firing indicates the use of the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to facilitate the download of malicious payloads. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is likely the location of this payload.

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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