Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14d6e05410e3b374…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

8.7 KB First seen: 2023-02-01
MD5: 5d7f2446eead507f0b5477d8dd8a0a3f SHA-1: ee29484d82ee67dfb6d221a5975264a4c0580222 SHA-256: 14d6e05410e3b374b1d63ed82c5af8aec688563d56fd59f7851467ba2ef3548d
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains an OLE object with data indicative of the CVE-2017-11882 Equation Editor vulnerability. It also includes a lure to enable content, common in exploit delivery. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, likely as a dropper for a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6825822-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6825822-0
  • \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_off000001f1.bin
aac521c32485d22b4236b021eaffab1030bc9e80fa948b42b85d75c4b8318aa8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1F1 4170 bytes