Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5ad4049ef688c6c…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.39 MB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: 8d0656608d1c0c09465be28acc4ee3aa SHA-1: 760f0e1409f7b422115f2c0e824134651a3b14a8 SHA-256: c5ad4049ef688c6c3904238dbf36f4edfa1192df7f22b2332e56047c5607a206
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The file is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE objects, with a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2017-8759. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections further supports the exploitation of OLE object activation.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • \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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0015125e.bin
eeeb97fce34cca0636198ef0ea636a5513a160bf28a28cc6d9d1884cbc273841
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x15125E 1478 bytes