Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef2e20e8ed4d7cea…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.2 KB First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: 8a8c1d50150f816dddad017eb45edaf8 SHA-1: 684c7dc4b8164dd143d93ac982a0f96a114a8d6b SHA-256: ef2e20e8ed4d7ceaa75d2983977d2166940c923b3c97361d5bdb3a6bead85232
162 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, indicating an attempt to exploit CVE-2017-0199. This exploit is known to download and execute a secondary payload from a weaponized URL. The embedded URL, https://a.doko.moe/iknfsr.hta, is highly suspicious and likely serves as the source for this payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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 https://a.doko.moe/iknfsr.hta In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000003f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3F 2607 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed9ce88f4742377d566485c7e8e43f366e65c61f9f7c333741d64fa967bdb70