PDF malware analysis — malicious · c64a2c382c3888be

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2011-07-08 00:33:37 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 01ee7067ab2d57b8e0621a326a11b937 SHA-1: a7bd63b9a65e53f793e03cb8d6a5daa90565924c SHA-256: c64a2c382c3888be54a7ad6b53221944a92b06fc8ce09e6c644ffb92943473aa

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating an exploit for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX vulnerability. It also embeds a URL that points to a potential executable payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content, but the exploit and embedded URL strongly suggest a download-and-execute attack pattern.

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_off00000ed8.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xED8	73272 bytes

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