Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0 — RTF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53a469499f803b62…

MALICIOUS

RTF

738.3 KB Created: 2018-02-07 19:28:00 First seen: 2018-02-19
MD5: 8f370b92b41b9ab648cb9b21cefbe82c SHA-1: 87786ff59709717f27e6158667964ced3feab919 SHA-256: 53a469499f803b6294eb4f1dc422d98736fdc7ade3fa5370bcff6be773777920
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0 · confidence 95%

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

The RTF file contains multiple embedded OLE objects and triggers their activation via \objupdate, exploiting CVE-2017-8759. ClamAV signatures indicate this is a variant of Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0. The embedded objects are likely used to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial execution.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
  • \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 10 \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 In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 10

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00002ca9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2CA9 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 04018179e406bb7d90b655976596f58b77247ca69fa467b5074e749aaa87bd0b
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_01_off0001392f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1392F 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 2db52fcdf063249669e78b9604467fb8efffe3951488f1d58083c8c6fd117f94
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_02_off0002452a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2452A 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 163a58840a3a719cbff36a2e8c37387c32299945b1077f74ed9c551cea33b311
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_03_off00035127.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x35127 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 03b7fcee9bd37c3ae8a6b08e9f978041336788270b9485e6dc8c1ea73ef66863
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_04_off00045d24.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x45D24 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 715d982d8c23b90f0349a206cc997afbb45c16dae07d1cf639c1a6b4d7d8c495
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_05_off00056921.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x56921 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 9b6fc690aaf37e615b701bb72d4128b1146227f6dc38e1f2735e760bd4f24ce3
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_06_off0006751e.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x6751E 22587 bytes
SHA-256: f00dbcb7867ff7573ce2f9b5a174bd4ee8e4a97042905c54c6080fbcbec128a3
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_07_off0007811b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7811B 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba625d7ab2438f10234ff436d89ffb338990fd08fd82f71957ad7bab48bc933
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_08_off00088d18.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x88D18 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 95dfc9245778e2944d2a8a483252708b5b20958e999cec82f6dff7e1a4252482
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_09_off00099915.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x99915 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 2ca73d1628a11a7da0e60bce474e018b1f57e9bf2b794dd6ae7704f6305c0697
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely