Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99d078b2160106aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2011-04-13 09:40:36 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 56287d2abd3dc682bcedaf7c521df7fd SHA-1: 2497e16ff58f7706dfdb31cabbafe62103d6e8c7 SHA-256: 99d078b2160106aafc4652244e78d322e82a7f772f48e4181a8327b26c9a2434
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551 indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a remote URL. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is flagged as unknown reputation and is the likely source of the secondary 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off0000068d.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x68D 73272 bytes