RTF malware analysis — malicious · 09308b272fe4af5e

MALICIOUS

RTF

1.53 MB First seen: 2023-08-16

MD5: 0ef3b323c2bcfa76a7bfe5df3ae116f4 SHA-1: 759c7b0e04bdee0bf40f28c6e50db24d4c9e6dd3 SHA-256: 09308b272fe4af5ede7423132d8a88c17308c5b6bf9106bba334a78e3f596bf5

242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability is known to be used for arbitrary code execution. The presence of a high-entropy, decoded PE artifact within the OLE object strongly suggests it's a malicious payload dropper.

Heuristics 7

Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED

RTF 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.
Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR

RTF 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.
\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.
Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX

RTF contains ~1606KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA

RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB

RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
Suspicious extracted artifact info 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`objdata_00_off00000088.bin` `78e3269c10d9b21ed573d7f811038ed5d634b2b5b83938aa98be672e0e50a035`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x88	803446 bytes
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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