Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbe2e9ed8f540211…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

438.3 KB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: c8fb6c4dcdb8a66230d45c4f03287b22 SHA-1: 60e2f7713e4b4a082aab25f52d77bcf28d0ce4a9 SHA-256: dbe2e9ed8f5402114711cf3517263c045b8e8fa508c23695ebd3ca38299becc5
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF document contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers the Equation Editor, indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-8759. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is the primary mechanism for delivering a payload.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759
    RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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 OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0006600b.bin
f311294d6a8a6618396d8c42bf4eb6e18a9e4b667557293e9ca0eb942f4794fb
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x6600B 3739 bytes