Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ce7b785110ae247…

MALICIOUS

RTF

101.7 KB First seen: 2019-09-30
MD5: fbe4eff2459d06595b6cc3038c635704 SHA-1: c651ca80a576d34d431bde93b27e27641c21a1a1 SHA-256: 3ce7b785110ae24780209b1427a739894872ba96e7322e045feebabf7a9f4eaa
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with an Equation Editor CLSID, strongly indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. The heuristic firings and ClamAV detection confirm this, pointing to a client execution attack pattern. The embedded URL likely serves as a distribution point for a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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://uploadtops.is/1//q/wBoJGVs In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000077c6.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x77C6 23170 bytes
SHA-256: 11b443f685845b138780e3ab77dead4c4d10c9be984c257462d4d102d678112e
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_PEB_ACCESS, SC_GETPC_CALL Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, ExitProcess, URLDownloadToFileA, ShellExecuteA