Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93f477904fa4b8c…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.4 KB First seen: 2019-05-31
MD5: 068717ec4e9fd4a62a9f83a84ca5d7a5 SHA-1: 8a0a434b8ebea5d2fb9022cf9fc6cfe596c2989d SHA-256: e93f477904fa4b8cf226e6c90cffcdd22e7bfcb48e732b2e6a51d1e663a612f6
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Equation Editor. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of the objdata_00_off00000031.bin artifact further supports the execution of embedded malicious content.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000031.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x31 4138 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6a0fc0a806b516c9161387da9e1965996440bbf14e2183bf13aa8bc152a229
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL