Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c34e7874575dfa9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

284.2 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:11:09 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 014ea941245e6de84790eae6eee63eac SHA-1: c58de7916ee420ffd8f3f3699a96113f8e38e9eb SHA-256: c34e7874575dfa9a63c9bb2f9af35459ca09663478e147043731439e8379aea8
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

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 secondary payload. The document body was not sufficiently readable to determine a specific 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off0000054a.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x54A 73272 bytes