Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cb6af9433aeb227…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2017-09-14
MD5: 9e492b6c797e31aa77644f5afaa53f77 SHA-1: 79b00abd7c006ac178f071e17aa5dd6777abf0c5 SHA-256: 0cb6af9433aeb22747e92a8cee9ccac9d42ff3defb94bbf4c4e5d2771ceae471
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data that is automatically linked and updated, exploiting CVE-2017-0199. This vulnerability is used to fetch and execute a secondary document from the specified URL, indicating a downloader or dropper functionality. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of this exploit.

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://10.200.149.55/logo.doc In RTF body
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordmlIn RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001a2.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1A2 2601 bytes
SHA-256: c87814425f069bebb7f5f6546638a2b8162fa78042dedab7cfe29b1343cbbd49