Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef488dff4b6b3bbe…

MALICIOUS

RTF

5.6 KB First seen: 2017-10-10
MD5: c9d3be9f8050b5a7a092a03c9aa57195 SHA-1: 8fe6c5da5e387ae6f1fc1427f29e679b9d0964b6 SHA-256: ef488dff4b6b3bbebef1f12c33a805eb541a5805cf9790df94cffb9f601ef7a0
222 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, exploiting CVE-2017-0199. This vulnerability allows the file to download and execute a remote payload from the specified URL. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the exploit.

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://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml In RTF body
    • http://google.com/In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001ab.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1AB 2601 bytes
SHA-256: 8b5ddcb6b58246ac9bfaa05ce66629c0d871053ee8bc9de5b24a487bcacae914