RTF malware analysis — malicious · 0ac0a09529d1df22

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.1 KB First seen: 2018-07-23

MD5: 549cf325f60809bea17fa747850dcf35 SHA-1: d861dfbb0f262b0cdb3c9245bce2b9e45e973ff0 SHA-256: 0ac0a09529d1df22778c9ad356492aa19d90664d491ca3094fc0f7cbb35cf25a

320 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with a CLSID associated with Microsoft Equation Editor. Heuristics indicate the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882, a known vulnerability in this component, which allows for arbitrary code execution. The file's verdict is malicious, and the SHA256 hash is provided as an IOC.

Heuristics 7

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
Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE

RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
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
Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK

RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
\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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`objdata_00_off0000003f.bin`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x3F	4135 bytes
SHA-256: `2dccd1755a12237b99bd90cb4d629f57b46d2cd74cea65841bc2243dc594d224`

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