Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10adea7e14a43db6…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

4.7 KB First seen: 2022-03-11
MD5: 2aff575debaf02b3bf6a628cdcc8b9ab SHA-1: 6820cb74bb5b2c2147416a399c6f918ab116ce80 SHA-256: 10adea7e14a43db62753b5ca83a160d3a3da346fe146a5439a34b02142fd8e69
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing OLE objects and specifically triggers heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability. This indicates an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability for client-side code execution, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. No further IOCs were extracted from the provided evidence.

Heuristics 3

  • 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 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000c3.bin
8c88c7a212be6c05438b74c91f8cce1c9d2ea70702cfb84203045a56e144d45c
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xC3 2074 bytes