Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 204586844914a6f6…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

131.1 KB
MD5: 6600a919cadbb946779c90ae6a7a9199 SHA-1: 570fc8754ec8bf5317a3ae810ddd19f087ab1905 SHA-256: 204586844914a6f62f564d45b96addce6cdae78776c841d4a901739277c80592
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is an RTF document that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2018-0802) to execute arbitrary code. The presence of OLE object data and automatic linking further indicates an exploit attempt. The ClamAV detection signature directly names the CVE, confirming the exploitation vector. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to deliver a malicious payload.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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_off00001a5a.bin
e1a3000d1a04e697573ef3b0235718024eefa96c351b404ed7dc7a43953e0aec
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1A5A 63556 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.94, consistent with packed or encrypted content.