Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d49b901a54f142e5…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.21.2510 First seen: 2019-03-18
MD5: 02449d4cfc43f5671513e61898b40aff SHA-1: 47ffb81d6de992e8007d53f5266ceaca2c274ede SHA-256: d49b901a54f142e5898ab5dc9bd26edd29f71a1058ddcc738a42c29a3980cd86
222 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, triggering CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is used to download a secondary payload from the embedded URL http://172.16.11.172:8080//. The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV due to this exploit.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / remote URL Moniker) critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link whose decoded target is remote. Office can fetch and process the response through the CVE-2017-0199 OLE2Link attack path, but the server-side content type is not proven statically.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_0199-6335035-0
  • 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.
  • \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://172.16.11.172:8080// In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000104.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x104 2724 bytes
SHA-256: 60b84beb3d2d5362408742a31f735ea40ca48ba24954e2b63442957dc964d031