Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bf8b8c1f70b2723…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2019-09-30
MD5: 5ae23f161966dd9a3298e4ff99f28741 SHA-1: 4654dd9b17763120cf98098c35550d63dfb8d8e1 SHA-256: 9bf8b8c1f70b27233af7c14b6bf0ff1df62b70430b3b1fccde0e7b7ad4a1be83
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data that is automatically linked and updated, indicating an attempt to exploit CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a specified URL. The embedded URL http://192.168.8.110:8080/default.hta is highly suspicious and likely hosts the malicious payload.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / weaponized URL) critical CVE exact CVE_2017_0199_WEAPONIZED_URL
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link to a script/HTA/template-style remote loader, matching the tighter static CVE-2017-0199 shape.
  • 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.
  • \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 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://192.168.8.110:8080/default.hta In RTF body
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordmlIn RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001b4.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B4 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 65854f6a51116c59ae5c3a22e776d5ca58c4bef464166e8224b3534ffc7c42d2

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