Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb68229579467627…

MALICIOUS

RTF

660.9 KB Created: 2012-04-19 15:10:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Word 11.0.0000 First seen: 2015-02-05
MD5: 61ae5581df7c347b350807d41a87b4ca SHA-1: e85cb0c9025b936723cbd9a0543088774469317c SHA-256: cb68229579467627b3ef46b47c0c85ccee055b84950024d6ed3cd66927fa6e32
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains OLE object data and triggers a high-severity heuristic for CVE-2012-0158, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.ListView. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening, likely leading to a second-stage 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 5 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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 In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000013b0.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x13B0 39958 bytes
SHA-256: cd187def1836c5d44f4ca1b857a4100392823786bff9735e04b1616b9d3046d0
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS