Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62c2167586bb0637…

MALICIOUS

RTF

697.2 KB Created: 2021-05-21 08:15:00 First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 2a569766e3d189d197beef0578552074 SHA-1: 02fe83e576999d7c690805f440dadc8bd594c28e SHA-256: 62c2167586bb063746f4d265051c49c344b791cd460c34d50b76930cb7de4c60
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains multiple embedded OLE objects and triggers an ".objupdate" command, which is indicative of exploiting vulnerabilities like CVE-2017-8759 for client execution. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, flagging it as Doc.Macro.Obfuscation. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, with the embedded OLE object serving as the mechanism to download and execute a secondary payload.

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-10036093-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
  • \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 9 \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 9

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00002b16.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2B16 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 2ccaad7066e8ce3ea3218c6982571c7503119f59ba54d02782df202187525caf
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_01_off00015354.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x15354 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 9c608b994a7c7e926bc0454eab534180dabc82fea8db6bd117a335795a396388
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_02_off00027b90.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x27B90 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 72b36ea5b895d34118a5320fd13c94435f3fef9574adedbe2c6d8b4754827487
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_03_off0003a3cc.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3A3CC 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 4bbcbeb2a1a753182309d801200053a5dfe7c5a8add0c5b2d6f78ff5ba5a5c7c
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_04_off0004cc08.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x4CC08 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 68f5917d7d3606f3429398c63b66d986fb5b3c8fe676892896c902df223bf1aa
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_05_off0005f444.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5F444 26683 bytes
SHA-256: cd8ca5327a73b3e2750dbb38a22ce4ff7d9382bc1baafdd70562b9641f76e4db
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_06_off00071c80.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x71C80 26683 bytes
SHA-256: ed51ff90e62c45967401debdb101cc75b4087905d268989d215f0dd9e7a250e9
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_07_off000844bc.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x844BC 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 3502604b93a72b71d14ec8c1b0702237b8de4553ee0b557d3f5f5a192775c0ed
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_08_off00096cf8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x96CF8 26683 bytes
SHA-256: 511d1f7134ba06d55446aa129d3f45d641d6f2705508d5a4c25fb283b2028330
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-10036093-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely