Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9683279ed88c54e4…

MALICIOUS

RTF

158.7 KB Created: 2017-10-31 14:02:00 First seen: 2017-11-13
MD5: 1a7c2b070d2e1faa537bd4abdf895356 SHA-1: af56296521d564c45587a139a5a834d3d61879b3 SHA-256: 9683279ed88c54e4435c1541f8c0648fa00158d25bed45fd0477d2d8fabf7bec
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for remote code execution. The exploit targets the URL https://fex.net/load/255149462175/85858744 to download and execute a secondary payload. This indicates a malicious document designed to compromise the user's system upon opening.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / remote URL Moniker) critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link whose decoded target is remote. Office can fetch and process the response through the CVE-2017-0199 OLE2Link attack path, but the server-side content type is not proven statically.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.
  • 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
    • https://fex.net/load/255149462175/85858744In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000275f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x275F 15116 bytes
SHA-256: 49bde081b8e23c76a19df2729adf675846aab1983728d58c13476121f9924e3b

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