PDF malware analysis — malicious · e468badeb145dca1

MALICIOUS

PDF

331.9 KB Created: 2011-04-27 03:16:28 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: d7b18b9024866125fd681fffc8668270 SHA-1: 4b395f395fd34159e7e1d8febfe16b6e7f3764a9 SHA-256: e468badeb145dca14a522370af159f5be2d271cf253810e61b315e4fa65c3e15

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating the CVE-2008-2551 exploit, which is known to download and execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe likely serves as the payload. The exploit targets vulnerabilities in PDF readers, leading to the download of a secondary executable.

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_off000003cb.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3CB	73272 bytes

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