Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed9b351160780a1c…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2018-03-04
MD5: 0789b217f620efe1bd40e6133bb11f86 SHA-1: e51287eee0415a63dee188834a7b695eba7eb372 SHA-256: ed9b351160780a1ccf5442f33ae03554fbcdee650f65abf90bc2c969b455c96e
222 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 is configured to automatically link and update from a remote URL. This exploit, identified as CVE-2017-0199, is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, in this case, a default.hta file from the specified IP address. The presence of the weaponized URL and OLE object firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to execute remote code.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-0199 (OLE2Link / weaponized URL) critical CVE exact CVE_2017_0199_WEAPONIZED_URL
    RTF contains a URL Moniker OLE link to a script/HTA/template-style remote loader, matching the tighter static CVE-2017-0199 shape.
  • 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://192.168.1.2:8080/default.hta In RTF body
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordmlIn RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001b4.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B4 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 0b31f64bf43be4e4a276b5b66cdc1e04bda910cdc2277fb5b57210ffde1b87ef

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