Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530236f3369dbf4c…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

3.22 MB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: 8b24291472254bd129e99b659d0422cd SHA-1: 81bd835480c2fef7cbc4461b06b2a71ed4997355 SHA-256: 530236f3369dbf4c93f8e84b8d97701f0264bb04063dc890661d6c24677545e0
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE objects. Heuristics indicate the exploitation of CVE-2017-8759, which involves MSXML SAX OLE activation. This suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, likely for downloading and running a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

  • CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759
    RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
  • \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 OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00324a44.bin
8c76ed073c7523a68fa235fd02c6b37cd5f7cd24594f096714525a85b3c534fe
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x324A44 1478 bytes