Win.Trojan.Elpapok-1 — RTF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8ff4f858000cd4…

MALICIOUS

RTF

60.1 KB First seen: 2015-09-18
MD5: 5b34d404ad5e9ff0e0e8706ecee70840 SHA-1: ca402cd368c16097f069394258a95eae2cba23b1 SHA-256: 3e8ff4f858000cd43993e0247675cb852badb144258a9e57a0fa87d8d416fc2c
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Win.Trojan.Elpapok-1 · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as Win.Trojan.Elpapok-1 by ClamAV, indicating a known malicious family. Static analysis reveals references to CreateProcess and VirtualProtect APIs, along with an OLE object containing shellcode candidate regions. The presence of CVE-2012-0158 further confirms exploitation for client execution. While no explicit scripts were found, the RTF object data likely contains embedded shellcode designed to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • MSCOMCTL.ListView — CVE-2012-0158 high CVE related CVE_2012_0158
    RTF \objdata decodes to OLE data containing the MSCOMCTL.ListView — CVE-2012-0158 CLSID — the vulnerable control/moniker is embedded directly in the document's object stream, the delivery shape of this exploit. RTF objects auto-render when Word opens the file.
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Elpapok-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Elpapok-1
  • Reference to CreateProcess API high SC_STR_CREATEPROCESS
    Reference to CreateProcess API
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • Reference to VirtualProtect API medium SC_STR_VIRTUALPROTECT
    Reference to VirtualProtect API
  • 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.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000a5.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA5 5065 bytes
SHA-256: b87604d31b44f23458f58049dc579a32586ad0d56f34dadbd5a024a2ca59de11
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd /c "Y_��gd�0