PDF malware analysis — malicious · e94951c00da932d7

MALICIOUS

PDF

304.4 KB Created: 2011-05-26 13:26:29 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 33f9b3e6dfa9acd425e68666f2bac255 SHA-1: 80fe71f471a82fc5bea08fb50a691fbc273b5702 SHA-256: e94951c00da932d7a19f209e4703cd89984901216539b26cf54dcfb00e6b7d65

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2008-2551, indicating an exploit for a known vulnerability. The embedded URL 'http://artisanballoonz.com/system/system.exe' is highly suspicious and likely serves as the download location for a malicious executable. The exploit likely facilitates the download and execution of this 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_013_off00002847.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2847	73272 bytes

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