Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8590be384c6ffda0…

MALICIOUS

RTF

737.1 KB Created: 2018-05-02 20:35:00 First seen: 2019-01-11
MD5: c3f7b5363692567fc7880197052642f1 SHA-1: 970019e9b32d4b08971d5d25764b0065182adddc SHA-256: 8590be384c6ffda04f9b8250eb5e12380a8c0a81259511fbcd5d63a4161277fc
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: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
  • \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_off00002c17.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2C17 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 82c73433e10c3379fb681664ea7c00ceec7ee87bebb9cf96f22433a549700bbb
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_01_off0001429d.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1429D 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 600b8063a1e6c08be00af92a033c597490dbc7f98f5cf5e0b32a42c8afe34c20
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_02_off00025923.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x25923 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 8b435a16b0616a55a3d8fb94e2c6cc95a460673c1efcd76aefc3a584abbe4bb5
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_03_off00036fa9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x36FA9 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 001395c292f1af86f6faed0f3a14843b2945a044ce9e32de0c9736d860d2f4c8
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_04_off0004862f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x4862F 24123 bytes
SHA-256: fad13fd7d0bf033f4aa17ea0ac72ef429d47827ffab1e4a0001b3ce52d43d9b6
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_05_off00059cff.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x59CFF 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 66516a162723e66182a2eefcf9c9ca33b3dd08f7f233450480243568997982e0
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_06_off0006b385.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x6B385 24123 bytes
SHA-256: fa5986432731089ff20bd1bd518c5b9542cae35d2f6dd0108be714fd903e8cf5
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_07_off0007ca0b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7CA0B 24123 bytes
SHA-256: abb2ac642c7875ab222c5145fa4084e59d52160d799c318b8f0221dd931fbac9
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_08_off0008e091.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x8E091 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 6140503219808684359c01ef538db94d8dce45c8df68704e5c9569e61031aa89
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_09_off0009f717.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9F717 24123 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4acefe1d66f3c065dc35e111ca34f9808337f091506ec88add7430cd812d55
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Dropper.Agent-6412232-1
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely