Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f76e3e3438e3be4…

MALICIOUS

RTF

4.1 KB First seen: 2019-12-10
MD5: 14c6c442f919569b7e60394f62942baa SHA-1: 84573c6f45d127f4dea20a53038876dd26e67618 SHA-256: 9f76e3e3438e3be4930a861ccb3d3a7ec7480d2d242294fee7aaa5ee268031cf
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with a suspicious Equation Editor ProgID, indicating exploitation of a known vulnerability. The ClamAV detection 'Rtf.Dropper.Agent-7121634-0' and the presence of shellcode API strings in a static triage signal further support this. The file likely acts as a dropper for a secondary payload, as suggested by the OLE object and shellcode indicators.

Heuristics 6

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Dropper.Agent-7121634-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Dropper.Agent-7121634-0
  • \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 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000005e0.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5E0 1316 bytes
SHA-256: 33d7500a501ae453e1890c472a9ea17111b9f0c07b04ad2e10bd487848ec1329
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY, SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD, SC_PEB_ACCESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryW, GetProcAddress, URLDownloadToFileW, ExitProcess, ShellExecuteW