PDF malware analysis — malicious · cc3f421d1272a5b2

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2011-05-17 22:52:22 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 74daac6daf4d4b21968588d05d5557e7 SHA-1: 1a89b135f332a0619dc6b6f7b1932e17293ee4d2 SHA-256: cc3f421d1272a5b2ab6a3d77014cf5696d2704fbe632ef8b26965f642a5ff2ee

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a heuristic match for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' likely points to the secondary payload. The document body appears to be malformed or truncated, providing no additional context for the attack's 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_001_off00000b5a.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xB5A	73272 bytes

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