Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8acebab5908fc0c5…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

653.5 KB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: a2ec2ec628ec74d805d04473ebbf10ca SHA-1: e8304efd667c65dabd0868f37ae6dc9deded1bd4 SHA-256: 8acebab5908fc0c5a9bcfe1e2eab5ca37d31611851ad3ece3b7d33e5ca10d9d5
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects and specifically targets CVE-2017-8759, a vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability for arbitrary code execution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making further analysis of the payload difficult.

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.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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_off0009cceb.bin
31a8404cf751b5092abb3f181d706179a5b06ffb2abc6f812c52750656602b50
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9CCEB 3739 bytes