Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea6ad8e6d498e61…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2017-12-08
MD5: 16befc8d0a7b01fc00f43cc39e653748 SHA-1: 23a5e957b49877e11dff242e0bd5cba36ef3f341 SHA-256: eea6ad8e6d498e61afad7a33e6a58fc080fffd1574265eeee8fde571a520fd49
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains OLE object data and is configured to automatically update, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. Specifically, the CVE-2017-0199 heuristic fired, pointing to a remote URL that likely hosts a secondary payload. This exploit is commonly used in phishing attacks to deliver malware.

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://192.168.0.29/blake.exe 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_off000001a2.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1A2 2601 bytes
SHA-256: ca2d3a794bdf6396d87aa7134bda7ab5376116150e24a7a76a9968e4d603ce04

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