Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aafceeec4bbc27ae…

MALICIOUS

RTF

78.5 KB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.21.2510 First seen: 2015-09-17
MD5: 561b819c6f347d5b3ee4e3648565fdb0 SHA-1: c6aacb758150411ad327f0586f2760e133d69afc SHA-256: aafceeec4bbc27ae825ff9b51d0dc79381dc97751efb0ceb62baa84322b789cb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains multiple OLE objects, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying an exploit for CVE-2012-0158 targeting MSCOMCTL.ListView. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability for client-side execution. The embedded OLE object likely serves as a dropper for a secondary payload.

Heuristics 4

  • MSCOMCTL.ListView — CVE-2012-0158 high CVE related CVE_2012_0158
    RTF \objdata decodes to OLE data containing the MSCOMCTL.ListView — CVE-2012-0158 CLSID — the vulnerable control/moniker is embedded directly in the document's object stream, the delivery shape of this exploit. RTF objects auto-render when Word opens the file.
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000a8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA8 33356 bytes
SHA-256: ce80daf3f3aeda7dd2630f3e84a2262ff8ac728948a2eb6fbb10765652a19d03
objdata_01_off00011492.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x11492 4502 bytes
SHA-256: 76c57a11bc2b321fcfad293dff7dbd881be2786d0159290e48ba17f46486d9dc
objdata_02_off000115f5.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x115F5 4371 bytes
SHA-256: 163577a7d1c90f0c9bcb5630143703f4b062dc8719f51a8a0b2cacfef0708744