Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d229f2b23e53e10d…

MALICIOUS

RTF

6.1 KB First seen: 2017-11-29
MD5: f2922ed964b2466b12a886e3f65a0c44 SHA-1: a5f131cc9ff29905f189786a9f83324574c2b4a2 SHA-256: d229f2b23e53e10d65a49319120fc34782d5f1f27c094e6ac856cb6204104324
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an OLE object that is automatically linked and updated, indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-0199. This vulnerability is used to fetch and execute a secondary payload from the embedded URL http://bellasimpson.com/free.hta. The nature of the embedded object and the exploit suggests a malicious document designed to deliver further malware.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • \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 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://bellasimpson.com/free.hta In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000003e.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3E 3111 bytes
SHA-256: a349e5dd1f3714896a42caccd0aa23f35677f6edde29bf4e967ee10406a3285a