PDF malware analysis — malicious · eee718556dc4a0b4

MALICIOUS

PDF

267.0 KB Created: 2011-05-17 09:20:35 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 43db03b56e84879761eefb221eb15b91 SHA-1: a21fec46e01e6ff276f9c83d6f66006f65103493 SHA-256: eee718556dc4a0b4dd74f452a04fe02a1548198d6cee42bbb5b1c9d357357324

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file 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 malicious 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_001_off000003cd.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3CD	73272 bytes

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