Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6735866984fecb3…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2019-04-17
MD5: 62712288cbf02f45719c8e1ae40f3b8b SHA-1: 3f47654e463bfb0d4fdd83f9381616da018a62cf SHA-256: d6735866984fecb3a5c7ad0a0e115727ac667b05b175dc51759c7c39cb5f8fc1
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, indicating an attempt to exploit CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is known to download and execute a secondary payload from a weaponized URL. The embedded URL http://10.110.8.186:8080/default.hta is highly suspicious and likely serves as the source for this payload.

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://10.110.8.186:8080/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: fb52819cf4657723d1618117827a1edbb5f228b30878a86940beb9fbfae134b2