Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 072e48732a1ba1d8…

MALICIOUS

RTF

14.3 KB First seen: 2019-03-10
MD5: f01bc606c13f36d65c4d52ae72cee3e3 SHA-1: e49159ed330f0b4db7942c3b3a93b3ab5451f409 SHA-256: 072e48732a1ba1d8d387770a2c091a4d78eea36e8f88b674b8d22cacd27334eb
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that triggers the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution, which is commonly used to download and execute further malicious stages. The ClamAV detection name directly indicates the exploit used.

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 4658 bytes
SHA-256: 20e4eac75f3435a738e07108f4980baea3ccd8e33eaa519330dff2a1ce1541dd