PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8ad15d66a5d2071b

MALICIOUS

PDF

797.8 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:17:03 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 4f8dbd0babe83a6e69ce562b9f0201e2 SHA-1: fa3f1724d8b778ccd65337d2b8f7871643894a92 SHA-256: 8ad15d66a5d2071b920df214c2f65548b40e12e0c4b9ded07da3f2310a6dd7c3

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary files. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the secondary payload. The exploit targets users who open the PDF, leading to the download and execution of the malicious executable.

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_002_off0000095d.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x95D	73272 bytes

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