MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The RTF document contains multiple indicators of exploiting the Equation Editor vulnerability, including RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR, RTF_OBJAUTLINK, and RTF_OBJUPDATE heuristics. This strongly suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely by downloading and running a secondary payload. The presence of OLE object data further supports this conclusion.
Heuristics 4
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Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF 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.
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Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINKRTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF 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_off0000177c.binb7dbffbd855a436006d68b89b021b164d8748efaaa6952367b249456fc711d01 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x177C | 2224 bytes |
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