Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc80ce6ae584770e…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.59 MB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: c3ab8905e7f74013f0a549d17f1a1bc5 SHA-1: 248a3c2767d831c954a9ad83e522feeaa103647f SHA-256: fc80ce6ae584770e7526477353019893d609cab0cfeef32dfce8b2fd6f83df83
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing

The file is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor. Critical heuristics indicate the exploitation of CVE-2017-8759, a vulnerability related to MSXML SAX OLE activation. This suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening, likely as a delivery mechanism for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759
    RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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 OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0018e21d.bin
fe038b12399ec0f057b2217d7db3381823fd75d1af59dcfc06f46a78ef7bb82e		 rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x18E21D 3732 bytes

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