Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15441eeb20d70b92…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

64.9 KB
MD5: 7cf99974e3c20c235f69885bc02269f8 SHA-1: cbb98ffeab7cd894c33063d433307a2eb29c4a78 SHA-256: 15441eeb20d70b9245b9c70958ba8b05ce42d7ee9bd579e975c681084b108e22
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains embedded OLE object data, specifically related to the Equation Editor. Heuristics indicate a critical finding for CVE-2017-11882, suggesting the exploitation of this vulnerability to execute a payload. The document body appears to be a list of parts or items, likely a lure, but the primary malicious activity is driven by the embedded exploit.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000005db.bin
c941f83e806957c3cfe77b823a9494f8a0ac198e429dcd023023b5bf2b4da177
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5DB 32402 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.