MALICIOUS
182
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1559.001 Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model
The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) to execute a payload. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the exploitation of this specific CVE, leading to the execution of a Portable Executable (PE) file. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the presence of the Equation Editor exploit is sufficient to determine the attack vector.
Heuristics 5
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Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE_2017_11882_RELATEDRTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
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Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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objdata_00_off00000074.bin27b09dfa668577bea98e3d5d6d41cea0c5f136e42fc9fd77be4c860401ac1919 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x74 | 39638 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
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