Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86c346653d1fee2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:27:15 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: d46a219c6ec112014c309f7eea2ab0bc SHA-1: e52a76dd3f317b1c02e86c299d07d150bda73f36 SHA-256: 86c346653d1fee2faaa1e0ccaec56d0f79165603c7828affe24c182ff505e042
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2008-2551 vulnerability, indicated by the 'C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit' heuristic. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a remote URL. The embedded URL 'http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1' likely points to the exploit component, while 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is a strong candidate for the downloaded payload. The presence of multiple benign news URLs in the document body is likely a distraction or part of a broader lure.

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://www.mehrnews.ir/NewsPrint.aspx?NewsID=1060633
    • http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1044676
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1044583
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1044772
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8901200507
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1043727
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8901200651
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=9047
    • http://www.presstv.ir/Persian.aspx?id=9046
    • 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_007_off000028ac.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x28AC 73272 bytes

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