Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed8a4932c1bc0eed…

MALICIOUS

RTF

63.1 KB First seen: 2019-11-20
MD5: bb7e1cbd3a6bb5131a7d8b544e68e5b2 SHA-1: 3c12f9d94044d36d453007ddbcb85c07a18e0dee SHA-256: ed8a4932c1bc0eed0421aa3d192d1ae7e937082b9828cdded84086873292234e
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains OLE object data and an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability for client execution. A suspicious artifact was extracted, suggesting shellcode and a URL for a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while currently benign, is noted as a potential indicator.

Heuristics 4

  • Suspicious extracted artifact critical 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.
  • \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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body
    • http://bit.ly/2Lx2FyHIn RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000e771.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xE771 1667 bytes
SHA-256: 765ecc46d60d8cf8997bb87fdad7f7c1f5d0ae49817e7f750c69a9df9fdd007c
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered URL(s): http://bit.ly/2Lx2FyH Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_STR_LOADLIBRARY, SC_STR_URLDOWNLOAD, SC_PEB_ACCESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, URLDownloadToFileA, ExitProcess