Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d46ff4e95a06ccc3…

MALICIOUS

RTF

22.2 KB First seen: 2019-08-04
MD5: 6378310639e4e1a589da03a361641b4d SHA-1: c5ab0a2e85693110daca4506a9b49d3c637e213b SHA-256: d46ff4e95a06ccc3f9a517b6b3b60895e0f2bb81399d3d07dc0203264abe134b
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This exploit is known to facilitate arbitrary code execution, typically used to download and run a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name further confirms the exploitation of this known vulnerability.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000036f8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x36F8 3615 bytes
SHA-256: 37f4322f1ab3f6f43d72add264a34c5166ea79dbb073a92a5e06b4c1197c65c2