Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bb9591f1ed79d19…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

346.5 KB
MD5: 47c45cbbc8fa7c9c62efdfcadee09e99 SHA-1: e44f1f16be00551108ece175186d84ce6432a177 SHA-256: 1bb9591f1ed79d19e77dd9e9b0c05ee37aa36c317e93e1d275df2a801c05afe6
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with a suspicious Equation Editor ProgID, indicating an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability. The \objupdate directive further suggests that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically, likely leading to the execution of malicious code. This pattern is commonly associated with delivering secondary payloads via exploits.

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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_off00000057.bin
f790d507721e656426e5d93db6217d609d8884e5ee84d285a4efb48214c1c3e2
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x57 177282 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.