PDF malware analysis — malicious · e8ab0a3b951161f4

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2011-06-22 16:54:47 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: d716838b57a6127ed4dcdbffee1c082a SHA-1: 24d59b16fd921c86921d8b851a7f9a41476e0168 SHA-256: e8ab0a3b951161f4982d88f465c966c1393dda32db46a711869ab44dfa761323

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE_2008_2551, indicating an exploit for a DownloaderActiveX. This exploit likely targets the embedded URL http://c6.community.alice.it/download/DownloaderActiveX.cab#Version=1,0,0,1 to download and execute a secondary payload. The second embedded URL, http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe, is also highly suspicious and likely the location of the dropped 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_off00000701.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x701	73272 bytes

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