Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c14ff9adabf20906…

MALICIOUS

RTF

43.5 KB Created: 2017-09-12 03:03:00 First seen: 2017-09-14
MD5: 69c1b2f273b0506d7c3bd34d7250c6b2 SHA-1: 014bb7ff337ae09b21838ccbffa70689c16631c8 SHA-256: c14ff9adabf209061313a2aa59fb1fc710adb29c23ccd43bf92207357831c92c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an OLE object that leverages CVE-2017-0199 to automatically link to and download an HTA file from the URL https://a.pomf.cat/fsfsyt.hta. This HTA file is likely a second-stage payload, indicating a dropper functionality.

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: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7160436-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Dropper.Agent-7160436-0
  • 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 https://a.pomf.cat/fsfsyt.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_off00002802.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2802 4664 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1049ff76024cec112c161158d7b54237f951d43a7ffd6821c37bc68c642541

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