Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 018cfbeb6f155503…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

690.5 KB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: 86d93b2f2b5c08337d1e2882ad441d51 SHA-1: b6f379f407682c5fce267afddb49256b49e85aa8 SHA-256: 018cfbeb6f155503fbe7a7e4dfd09f899fcf8d96ad8711b9295153b66945381d
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample is an RTF document that leverages two critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-11882 (Equation Editor) and CVE-2017-8759 (MSXML SAX OLE activation). These exploits are designed to embed and execute malicious code, likely leading to a second-stage payload download or execution. The presence of OLE object data and updates further indicates an attempt to trigger embedded exploits.

Heuristics 8

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759
    RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATE
    RTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
  • 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
  • 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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000a38a7.bin
8fac7fa87ca8a0023a4b5ecb24558e6c8fba4ca86c4260d77125c67212d2e63a		 rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA38A7 3739 bytes

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