Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baff6f85b52fa49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2011-04-27 03:03:49 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 61ff4618f07e12a627bff32d6b6572b7 SHA-1: 6d4310d5cdadb147cf0adcb0451a0d933d380cbc SHA-256: baff6f85b52fa49a04716c6f2daa5e2007bdad680933ec12340888cd6e0579af
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit (CVE_2008_2551). This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is marked as unknown reputation and is the likely target for the downloaded payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further clues.

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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_009_off0000220a.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x220A 73272 bytes