Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13759c76612aecb2…

MALICIOUS

RTF

244.9 KB Created: 2017-08-28 First seen: 2017-09-14
MD5: 82ba5241c806364bccf4cc12cadbc504 SHA-1: a01fa9b631f18baf3e10aabb742211b9d862c097 SHA-256: 13759c76612aecb2eb3d77268ea1249ad06816f3a82d5e0d5cd76bb30f6e3cef
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains critical heuristics indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-0199, which is known to facilitate the download of remote content. The embedded URL http://109.234.34.86/ms/ms.rtf is highly suspicious and likely serves as the source for a secondary payload. This exploit allows for client execution by tricking the application into loading and executing content from a remote source.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://109.234.34.86/ms/ms.rtf 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_off00002aef.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2AEF 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 7bb88da3c62a879f5c258909338204896b188f751ea1ee698e5f7eb3c668b685