PDF malware analysis — malicious · a1355a0cbd13ee24

MALICIOUS

PDF

313.3 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:31:14 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 88be4668aad6d8004c13aa52f34811d9 SHA-1: 000898f61032ec1de775ef5e96d4fb3f11d96153 SHA-256: a1355a0cbd13ee243aea21e99b1c75922ef98007b9c2e630fa1f77069fdfaecf

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary files. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe likely points to the secondary payload. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firing is sufficient to infer the 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_off000004f3.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x4F3	73272 bytes

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