Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddb48f7034260a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

498.6 KB Created: 2011-07-07 21:41:30 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))
MD5: 37b830117a92e3b57f028b6c9780ce0c SHA-1: ab5f8c697cd78ccc9abe46d8e80fcfcc5418144c SHA-256: ddb48f7034260a9ab2556ec4d591af80a9770d8aec8150fe3411f2e4f2e89f82
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for a downloader. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is likely the download location for a malicious executable. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further context on the 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_off0000042a.bin
80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x42A 73272 bytes