PDF malware analysis — malicious · b40f6aad7faa0c50

MALICIOUS

PDF

689.5 KB Created: 2011-04-22 21:45:41 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 73c57254ef21eb962ea308756d831d3e SHA-1: 31f9bbc414c22daa525ea9cc0cb2402d2e2557eb SHA-256: b40f6aad7faa0c50f3d69da7c77cc42a9c0cf0d059839df9e363889758ac357a

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file that contains a marker for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit (CVE_2008_2551). It also embeds a URL that points to a potential executable payload. The exploit likely facilitates the download and execution of 'system.exe' from 'artisanballoonz.com'.

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_off00000416.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x416	73272 bytes

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