Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07e81ee40b953853…

MALICIOUS

RTF

28.2 KB First seen: 2018-05-18
MD5: 34bf998dac14da6b74375598300b112b SHA-1: 6681b9d4c3825a95f42a7afa2fa634eb81efd290 SHA-256: 07e81ee40b95385316ea2731c2fed1443029f0e772ef920339bc52ed8182e991
240 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 leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The document body explicitly instructs the user to enable editing, indicating a lure to bypass security measures. This exploit allows for client-side code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000086.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x86 9072 bytes
SHA-256: 0131016946e5d7cc19b970407e2f9706e4145e35cb43827f19e649f067c5c783