PDF malware analysis — malicious · e4e14e8af9095239

MALICIOUS

PDF

480.7 KB Created: 2011-05-26 13:43:40 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 61c83ff1f00ad15ad23a30f2accdaa5e SHA-1: 1e240c46562282a28c7752d632e669099c071566 SHA-256: e4e14e8af9095239d8dad0bc763f6b8871696278158b54ccab7a92972bce1ee3

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a marker for the CVE-2008-2551 C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a remote URL. The embedded URL http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe is highly suspicious and likely hosts the secondary 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_003_off00000d6c.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD6C	73272 bytes

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