Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ce1043659cf476e…

MALICIOUS

RTF

43.8 KB Created: 2017-08-23 01:31:00 First seen: 2017-08-27
MD5: 8e85ab34ff013848bec876f4db92f3d9 SHA-1: 3cac7302bd1d4153b6ab0309c6e5d89f083979bf SHA-256: 2ce1043659cf476e8fd02af74ae826a2d67ee0dcc0bbec73902e39048a379579
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an OLE object and exploits CVE-2017-0199, which is a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The exploit targets the URL https://www.baidu.com/ to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an OLE object further supports the exploitation of embedded content.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body
    • https://www.baidu.com/In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00002ad0.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2AD0 3924 bytes
SHA-256: 88b1e294beec0fad6104879323024ba3be5c98f2eec6a552302ed6cb1e24d449