PDF malware analysis — malicious · e295a522be623d2b

MALICIOUS

PDF

624.0 KB Created: 2011-05-17 08:44:26 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 6e9affa066e70edfe2930b390f56e913 SHA-1: 8f9b3ecd5f4b0ba3d117c934cfb603278d4feae7 SHA-256: e295a522be623d2b054928f71946cd2a5ee0f528f744f76db54ad2fffb7c212e

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

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. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely hosts this payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

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_off00000869.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x869	73272 bytes

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