Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfd114b53347dbd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

624.0 KB Created: 2011-05-26 12:51:33 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 7218067540cd1ac704468a203b41b808 SHA-1: 9c79a987aaf455a34e8ea8538f65765d7f210dbc SHA-256: cfd114b53347dbd3b9bf91f7eabbad467a06edd28685f41256e48854e2b568ae
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit (CVE-2008-2551). This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a specified URL. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is flagged as unknown reputation and is the likely source of the malicious payload.

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_002_off00000869.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x869 73272 bytes