Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4b0469acff79562…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2018-10-07
MD5: 8f0d29b2160157d11d3fd278c465861c SHA-1: 26d07a309902c4fd62ed8ef375b518edbc697dbc SHA-256: d4b0469acff79562c0f83d1b3fe69f73a455c9a054c56d744a2b74b8b50f3390
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains OLE object data and an automatically linked OLE object that triggers an update, indicative of an exploit. Specifically, the CVE-2017-0199 exploit is detected, which attempts to download and execute a payload from the embedded URL http://192.168.1.160:80/default.hta. This exploit is commonly used to deliver secondary malware payloads.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://192.168.1.160:80/default.hta In RTF body
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordmlIn RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001b4.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B4 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 9d49a904dedfdb6c95384b25fcc86e140aa5c513bb474bcc75a29954d509eaf7

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