PDF malware analysis — malicious · bb27358416629657

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2011-07-07 23:32:18 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 141d12c63c7f52b7536fdbe449775c66 SHA-1: 6c8a5c231c6ed68304957eca31cd41b7fda468c1 SHA-256: bb27358416629657ded41522bf0e06295268ed67d495cc373635374516211f85

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF 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 the 'system.exe' file from the 'artisanballoonz.com' domain.

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_off00000e29.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE29	73272 bytes

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