PDF malware analysis — malicious · ae1d7508e8a6433d

MALICIOUS

PDF

327.2 KB Created: 2011-06-22 18:09:13 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 5e48708d879120115aa51c1b70ad7725 SHA-1: 4bd8e680b4fc3c9689fe9ca2dcb66b7530d72bdf SHA-256: ae1d7508e8a6433d1d2484a834e175aac60aab32ce361810dd11d8ac7e54c1f4

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is likely the second-stage payload. The document body was heavily truncated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of the lure.

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_004_off00001bdc.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1BDC	73272 bytes

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