PDF malware analysis — malicious · 954057bd64523ee5

MALICIOUS

PDF

492.5 KB Created: 2011-05-26 15:09:08 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 0bbe7c85c2be03cbe7c831aefea8c119 SHA-1: c2507be401f7e14c92c9bb576caa48cad0ef2d4b SHA-256: 954057bd64523ee5f3004fac4b1b134a72ae9003fceebc52a8260770e3794dec

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for a known vulnerability. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for a malicious executable. The exploit likely aims to trick the user into downloading and running this executable, leading to further compromise.

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_off0000041e.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x41E	73272 bytes

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