Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba72a80589502357…

MALICIOUS

RTF

45.6 KB Created: 2017-11-06 First seen: 2017-11-13
MD5: 31c4ff0bdb12c1ccbe96acdadf7815a6 SHA-1: ad37f8caec154c30aaf07964f18c0b2ac55bd590 SHA-256: ba72a8058950235725a49be4e5f3885cc810a0aa86a42f1551c5f3ed792a70a4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-0199, a known vulnerability for client execution. This exploit is configured to download and execute an HTA payload from the URL http://wizkiddz.xyz/order/htatnt.hta. The presence of the weaponized URL and the specific CVE exploit strongly indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / weaponized URL) critical CVE exact CVE_2017_0199_WEAPONIZED_URL
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link to a script/HTA/template-style remote loader, matching the tighter static CVE-2017-0199 shape.
  • 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.
  • 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://wizkiddz.xyz/order/htatnt.hta 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_off000026a8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x26A8 7980 bytes
SHA-256: 066477b1576608054c9907c8844252a7b8677c63a1902e2962ac8240720df51d