Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e6365d77ea48584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.4 KB Created: 2011-05-26 13:29:33 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: f60f088b614e643407b4ccfd3c65a17b SHA-1: d6711bb4c1aad39fc43d46737fffc5fa0efc7660 SHA-256: 9e6365d77ea485840acf6ee8b605e2ed4133c6ee817353240da0d46763fdcb4a
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating it exploits a vulnerability to download a payload. The embedded URLs, while benign according to reputation data, are part of the document's lure. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the payload delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903231748
    • http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa.aspx?id=130281&sectionid=351021501
    • http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa.aspx?id=130195&sectionid=351021504
    • http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa.aspx?id=130218&sectionid=351021504
    • http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa.aspx?id=130215&sectionid=351021504
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1175587
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903240058
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903231714
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1175455
    • http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903221309
    • http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=1175575
    • http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa.aspx?id=130304&sectionid=351021507
    • http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa.aspx?id=130255&sectionid=351021507
    • 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_005_off000026d0.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x26D0 73272 bytes

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