Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a927bd44040817…

MALICIOUS

RTF

1.14 MB Created: 2017-04-07 14:15:00 First seen: 2019-03-18
MD5: 619aa4e6c9db275381ab0e7fc7078f5f SHA-1: f0d599e0f6ee1bd839ba6f87329f19119a9d32fe SHA-256: a7a927bd44040817ae39e15aeb3f0b69ca943d4ce5b00d12eed6fae5b1c325d0
322 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains an OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-8759, a vulnerability in MSXML SAX OLE activation. Heuristics also indicate references to PowerShell and Windows Script Host, suggesting the execution of malicious scripts. The embedded URL, though benign, is present in the RTF body, indicating a potential phishing lure.

Heuristics 9

  • 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: Win.Phishing.Suspicious-6355521-4 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Phishing.Suspicious-6355521-4
  • Reference to PowerShell high SC_STR_POWERSHELL
    Reference to PowerShell
  • Reference to Windows Script Host high SC_STR_WSCRIPT
    Reference to Windows Script Host
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00015b0f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x15B0F 11410 bytes
SHA-256: c57b43f6f757d77c9f50d47a053ee195989c55fd1198bf6ad250c699196dfde2
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): mshta.exe