Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f97cf3387752bfbe…

MALICIOUS

RTF

73.2 KB First seen: 2018-06-21
MD5: c78041a4260992dbb56848a8587a45e2 SHA-1: c1da1f27f22d72bd7af23488b840471f1d20c33e SHA-256: f97cf3387752bfbe2144d345d4cdd797c7f899173f3c973cdf47804e9e9f01b0
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing OLE object data, specifically triggering heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability is known to allow for arbitrary code execution. The presence of shellcode API strings and a shellcode candidate region further supports this. The embedded URL is likely used to download a secondary payload, a common tactic for this exploit.

Heuristics 7

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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://meupload.site/1//f/LRjSbAM In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000633.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x633 23151 bytes
SHA-256: 5ae0278612261e74ae59399aee760b087364ad49fb2528f265057cc6ae1a1b0c
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL, SC_PEB_ACCESS, SC_GETPC_CALL Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, ExitProcess, URLDownloadToFileA, ShellExecuteA