Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06aa198c6c7505c0…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.21 MB
MD5: c1ba2bce350a9720ffbb40ed215b3857 SHA-1: bb0ed6438e52b742008fc8e5070edbe19d4219cf SHA-256: 06aa198c6c7505c0cbd97c98fc5a7bc7760caad0db34513a7d497b41ccc1674a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects and specifically triggers ".objupdate" which forces OLE activation. The critical heuristic "RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR" indicates exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability. The embedded OLE objects, particularly objdata_00_off00000a86.bin and objdata_02_off00008a13.bin, are likely payloads. The DOC BODY contains what appears to be obfuscated VBScript code, suggesting the embedded object is a VBScript downloader or executor.

Heuristics 5

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000a86.bin
c6be2373d74934887d54668419bc0c136f13a8d7ebc7fc3d76544b34aeca903c
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA86 13660 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off00007c40.bin
af3f607f9fc7ef03a8da841f5957032a4e1ea9827fc6aa98c063d6c38442999a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7C40 126 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_02_off00008a13.bin
db4ffd933cb54cb728631f8f9fb5697ba0a42bc4474fe72c60d13dc4bbc0981b
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x8A13 267326 bytes