Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e881b9fd076c5ed…

MALICIOUS

RTF

727.1 KB Created: 2018-02-07 20:04:00 First seen: 2018-02-19
MD5: f9cd8b7a912cb8aa28b6bbfd168d554d SHA-1: 6610e605c5979b9dbc2e2dee8b5bfa859ab25e70 SHA-256: 9e881b9fd076c5ed1b3b055b9d794949b4951ef46642a2d48a477d2fe8fbd243
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-6934880-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
  • \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 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_off00002c4a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2C4A 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 0da6288202afc879c220adc11c3c1455260f38b739bb67a73bc25135bab26d78
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_01_off00013d30.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x13D30 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 627518d7f6ac00a2b67ae878b541ece79b872f30e8aa35fb49e5b0db399f6dce
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_02_off0002501f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2501F 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 7b54c697d7717f1714dcaa1711e15ea209b03e8f8297d87712ced0f7fc28b075
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_03_off00036310.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x36310 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 988982f07dbaba21e1a42afda709f317230d33bb6622f585263fa786659bfd15
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_04_off00047601.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x47601 22587 bytes
SHA-256: f16ffc23ed204bf28fd53ca11175d084a58f00cf133fee4b96a6e4e85d12fc28
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_05_off0005891a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5891A 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 478099e8005c59daeb24935224c258e62e9fdb9aba94bdff8ed713b107383c53
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_06_off00069977.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x69977 22587 bytes
SHA-256: cc26a9f4e657a0adf931af4903fe0edcdfd042f8565137228d49b484c6a07b7d
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_07_off0007ac68.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7AC68 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 1f219555c5f13283b014e908b5aff77160169673199b9a84ad413979e3cc355b
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_08_off0008bf59.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x8BF59 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 27f3fa48f817b384997651486d585c26587bdb6d8c30c8e51090d5e4467562f7
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_09_off0009d24a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9D24A 22587 bytes
SHA-256: 77908312483a96817f546d1ee2b1871b9209d0fd7d153c0391717057bf398784
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Valyria-6934880-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely