PDF malware analysis — malicious · a4288c8904df969b

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2011-05-17 09:11:48 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: e175c9f8cd0b8bfcfb42824c552ac5cf SHA-1: 4cef63c7531bdb3391cb5b91d102f0419e00ce86 SHA-256: a4288c8904df969bd5932775c303d1b8bf1755d21d6256fa15f0fddbca0bec74

62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely hosts this payload. The document body was truncated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of user-facing lures.

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_off0000086b.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x86B	73272 bytes

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