Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5045b0edb732530…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2017-12-24
MD5: 97ef333a8d134f57826ac063f2cebf5c SHA-1: e68b238bc3ecf5a295d69fe6754e5bab240133ae SHA-256: a5045b0edb732530efdc10d7cf1c1265d8af9d7746a87657beab3b517e41f1a7
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an OLE object that is automatically linked and updated, exploiting CVE-2017-0199. This vulnerability allows the file to download a second-stage document from the specified URL, which is likely malicious. The ClamAV detection confirms the exploit's presence and malicious nature.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / remote URL Moniker) critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link whose decoded target is remote. Office can fetch and process the response through the CVE-2017-0199 OLE2Link attack path, but the server-side content type is not proven statically.
  • 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://149.202.57.37/logo.doc 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_off000001a2.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1A2 2601 bytes
SHA-256: f59e26ece08f9ed68f37d255271cb4ac15912e0d90ba42212841a3d1e548abf9

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