PDF malware analysis — malicious · b2079ac9411c9685

MALICIOUS

PDF

314.9 KB Created: 2011-07-07 22:33:14 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 1c0dcbc4e632e2fe2a53742d891604e9 SHA-1: 275b48dd45bc20c9a7e7851cbe2d26124b6f44d6 SHA-256: b2079ac9411c9685021e484103d733696e5c111c334aabf53ab8348a9837ff3a

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating an exploit for a known vulnerability. This exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a secondary payload from the URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe. The document body was truncated and did not provide further context on 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_002_off00000810.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x810	73272 bytes

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