Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ff8bc9a24257bc0…

MALICIOUS

RTF

74.7 KB First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: 09923ce42d93e97791394d3050c7d8ad SHA-1: e09d5a0f0ebfe5eedc77499f9722e25012fb8207 SHA-256: 9ff8bc9a24257bc012ffac49356da2d5841374fe4f7c30e983a69f06d179bde2
242 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 data indicative of the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload from the provided URL. The presence of shellcode API strings further supports this conclusion.

Heuristics 7

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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://uploadtops.is/1//f/rihUTZ7 In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000baf.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xBAF 23150 bytes
SHA-256: bdbb3b5ddd1b701a8f8b52ed86aa138a6b1afdf6d938c3289ffeb4b4ecc3966f
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_PEB_ACCESS, SC_GETPC_CALL Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, ExitProcess, URLDownloadToFileA, ShellExecuteA