PDF malware analysis — malicious · f20b977b7d73abea

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2011-06-22 17:41:54 Authoring application: Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management (via TCPDF 3.0.015 (http://www.tcpdf.org))

MD5: 5c699efa9d73e582820697a9c066f7be SHA-1: 0ac9fd3dabb20fec2fa14122a8114d9d5d200533 SHA-256: f20b977b7d73abea9f2c75ba78c774b7eef0e8e8b4309695ede24d1984205e8f

60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that contains a marker for the C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX exploit. This exploit is known 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_001_off000004f0.bin` `80ce46be3b4d5733393d911e720cc341eac961413bc8841086c1643fee9fc14b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x4F0	73272 bytes

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