Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e1992a9a47a2f9…

MALICIOUS

RTF

14.3 KB First seen: 2019-03-10
MD5: f91f41f98112920c0c56e5c035a646c7 SHA-1: e5016e803d35125b43e1703f326d5cf46ae0942f SHA-256: 01e1992a9a47a2f96416b1462d06979f5538079d16ea1bcffa189cba35d96ce5
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE object data and triggers an ".objupdate" call, indicating an attempt to activate embedded objects. Heuristics and ClamAV detection confirm exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 via the Equation Editor. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution, which is typically used to download and execute a secondary malicious payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000014bd.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x14BD 4666 bytes
SHA-256: 3d63fc3d294d9ffc85fd40a695a1bf2db43d640468f678fa857dd400a0067866