C6 Messenger Downloader PDF malware analysis — malicious · e3768ca43e152e69

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:31:51 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 3099e1919201028681d14e18b01deb99 SHA-1: 220300d6ded615b1ce20d1745498d62048b5b319 SHA-256: e3768ca43e152e697e6771589375bb2cc23a33611559706430e908f4b7821fd3

62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

C6 Messenger Downloader · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains a critical heuristic firing for the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute payloads. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for the second-stage malware. The document body was unreadable, but the exploit and the suspicious URL strongly indicate a downloader attack pattern.

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_off0000045e.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x45E	73272 bytes

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