Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a224490822b21f2…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: 205c41542d8ed8ae786b83540dd7643d SHA-1: 45e61ff7491c02e7c29006e4ab725bb6ab66969c SHA-256: 3a224490822b21f2da10fe937645f960c65e9cd03fe9db2651cdd01cb3fb0537
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an OLE object with an automatically linked update that exploits CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, in this case, a default.hta file from the specified IP address and port. The embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

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://192.168.101.128:8080/default.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_off000001b4.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B4 2601 bytes
SHA-256: dec940858bf6a124509230e088d5f790459dcdddc9a28de1b13af3b321eac5ec