Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e394df01d8673d9…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2017-09-14
MD5: 5dac5d930d45b4a5bac3a5aefe999983 SHA-1: 194b0427e0a4795b7bb41ab81a63b292a7ff9134 SHA-256: 1e394df01d8673d9d24567903af6894681753960b54847c4674238635a5ebed1
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, exploiting CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from the embedded URL http://192.168.0.102/exp.hta, which is a common technique for initial compromise via spearphishing attachments.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / weaponized URL) critical CVE exact CVE_2017_0199_WEAPONIZED_URL
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link to a script/HTA/template-style remote loader, matching the tighter static CVE-2017-0199 shape.
  • 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://192.168.0.102/exp.hta 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_off000001ab.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1AB 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 820ecf0804090b90199c3033826576ccc3be4a5c9b0c4b75cb799d79a36220f5