MALICIOUS
140
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1059.001 PowerShell
The file is an RTF document containing embedded OLE objects, with critical heuristics indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-8759. This vulnerability allows for OLE activation, suggesting the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The presence of embedded OLE object data and the ".objupdate" directive further support this attack vector. The likely intent is to download and execute a second-stage payload.
Heuristics 5
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CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759RTF 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.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMBRTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off000d7333.bina12b31210f923513fa4a0b21c530234b0f882200da50f2f7f6860aee03ae1bf8 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0xD7333 | 1435 bytes |
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