PDF malware analysis — malicious · 95d12ce99289a835

MALICIOUS

PDF

172.7 KB Created: 2011-05-17 08:54:24 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: aa4496a5d2ee4797bc3c8aa8e99ca749 SHA-1: a897322bec52f65b88b83eae97cb94e3f1f1dcb0 SHA-256: 95d12ce99289a8352c398e92ac399a27d7b25a3579cdf2cc598325f7130e4c70

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551 indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is likely the download location for a malicious executable. The document body was unreadable, but the exploit and URL strongly suggest a downloader attack pattern.

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_off000003df.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3DF	73272 bytes

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