Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08755b1ba0dd2d96…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.21.2510 First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: e771af220318ec66d7bda33d722277d1 SHA-1: 15f539cf5f8d3fbc0a173558dd4a08e191061e34 SHA-256: 08755b1ba0dd2d96043d3bc0399a4c4ee1d608e2e02d2c0d71a2d8f7bc85c29c
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an OLE object that is automatically linked and updated, triggering the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. This vulnerability is used to download and execute a remote HTML file from the URL http://xxc.bytykj.cn/cache/vod/1.html, indicating a likely initial access vector via spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / remote URL Moniker) critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link whose decoded target is remote. Office can fetch and process the response through the CVE-2017-0199 OLE2Link attack path, but the server-side content type is not proven statically.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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 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://xxc.bytykj.cn/cache/vod/1.html In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000105.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x105 2724 bytes
SHA-256: b86404e507bf899e9d254e3ddcef375624fd854dd5e1dd62cf8766ebfb33840f