PDF malware analysis — malicious · cf674ab85d5c560f

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2011-05-17 08:51:02 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 22370f723368720702c86d62ca23af37 SHA-1: d1caf5e9c06880c7520d4d1f24b4783bb4f06f6a SHA-256: cf674ab85d5c560f326947a5a1c9dd9eca3a2e4e0f88c74a378a0bb6adf1ccac

62 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 arbitrary files. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe likely points to the secondary payload. The other embedded URL was confirmed benign.

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_off00000a40.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xA40	73272 bytes

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