PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9cdbb4702198b815

MALICIOUS

PDF

284.4 KB Created: 2011-04-27 03:29:56 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 416ae6354fec2f149ee0fbba2aa3317c SHA-1: 099339508859d7a20c1ba0f400edd489cb194b91 SHA-256: 9cdbb4702198b815f61735c8aca4021c627c50dbf69887a2906b1f72ad94ab6c

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a marker indicating the CVE-2008-2551 DownloaderActiveX exploit. The embedded URL points to a suspicious executable file, suggesting the document's purpose is to lure the user into downloading and running a malicious payload. The exploit targets a known vulnerability, likely for initial access.

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_off000003d4.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3D4	73272 bytes

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