Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf4a020552e4c3a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB Authoring application: Msftedit 5.41.21.2510 First seen: 2019-05-31
MD5: d5c062295bb80aa7810e6fa92e59162c SHA-1: 0583e74ddd17785e5efde523cdd745aab90266b3 SHA-256: eaf4a020552e4c3a98cf208afd6395262ac2e8be1071415e71cbe72d2f4b9f2b
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, triggering CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is designed to download and execute a remote payload from the specified URL. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file, specifically identifying it as an exploit for CVE-2017-0199.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / remote URL Moniker) critical CVE likely CVE_2017_0199
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link whose decoded target is remote. Office can fetch and process the response through the CVE-2017-0199 OLE2Link attack path, but the server-side content type is not proven statically.
  • 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://172.16.1.96:8080// In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000104.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x104 2724 bytes
SHA-256: cbcaf98775312f92bb25c39b06cc2dca4c8389e1b47324defbab8721a2d75611

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