Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38d0e5940e3935cc…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2017-12-08
MD5: eb778f72dbe5fd4f6fab1cfec89e5d49 SHA-1: e727a93db240dc355d5332b4fe63cdb5a1dba204 SHA-256: 38d0e5940e3935cc9d61823992f3a67b23b801f415179831d343c7e82d6c6281
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains OLE object data and is configured to automatically update and activate an OLE object. This behavior is indicative of an exploit for CVE-2017-0199, which is designed to download and execute a remote payload from a specified URL. The embedded URL 'https://goo.gl/7Uuocw' is the target for 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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body
    • https://goo.gl/7UuocwIn 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: 6ce43ee7bc973a2627082d0a3c093c8165b77439823dafd95dcd050c9047a77f

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