Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac815acc111ba7d1…

MALICIOUS

RTF

261.2 KB Created: 2018-07-03 09:28:00 First seen: 2019-02-26
MD5: 70147179c707cb33dd8ebec1047ddc58 SHA-1: a64e9df96091f2a3f8bdcbb1dbf99504fa7f1313 SHA-256: ac815acc111ba7d1dd3d34f33da1e61dd0b60947f5035df299d999823a69c8bc
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains critical heuristic firings for CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2017-8759, indicating exploitation of these vulnerabilities for client execution. The embedded OLE object and the ".objupdate" directive suggest the file is designed to activate this exploit upon opening. The unknown reputation URL "http://ghlow.me/wp-content/themes/writee/inc/theme/secured/gut.msi" is likely the download location for a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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: Doc.Exploit.Cve_2017_11882-7570663-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.Cve_2017_11882-7570663-1
  • \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
  • 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://ghlow.me/wp-content/themes/writee/inc/theme/secured/gut.msi 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_off0000bf6b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xBF6B 15672 bytes
SHA-256: e9687447ecc03eda45140a340f7ae6c25ea20f04a6e4f86f21970e4e6e4abae6

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