Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228541de048caf30…

MALICIOUS

RTF

19.2 KB First seen: 2018-09-04
MD5: cd6700e55bfb04ffc7e1c282e26fe663 SHA-1: 94f75ac69bc9ed649a321d1eaf2a43460910a5cc SHA-256: 228541de048caf30cd60c07d3034ac4a6fc97306e84fc9f99e6fc7b5d9ce0cea
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of the Ole10Native stream and the objupdate heuristic strongly indicate an attempt at OLE object activation for exploitation.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001675.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1675 4655 bytes
SHA-256: ec653af0bf9f6aa9a5658b6f07eee003e79442294f0945582fab57efe94edd0a