Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4de3d54e8e4b055d…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2018-03-04
MD5: 3ceb0f460cfbc025b5c35ceb70749ace SHA-1: 86bf12d66f536145fed04c6d424322f81068ba88 SHA-256: 4de3d54e8e4b055d1a078ba745bc56c556ad6949c42995357531504a3c316039
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data that is automatically linked and updated, exploiting CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from the specified URL. The extracted URL points to an HTA file, which is commonly used to deliver further malicious content.

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://172.241.166.106/~dave/1_com/2/newsd.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_off000001ab.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1AB 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 2e9b1dc6add3505e6b3aab9c2e785e2649bf9ab008e3085b8a1d936e8fadd8e8

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