Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23dd952c3845eadb…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

219.2 KB
MD5: db249cda662feb1ce88d58fdd33d4b70 SHA-1: 5b44dec39ad6189396af16a015be839375c5560c SHA-256: 23dd952c3845eadbeaaeafde5ea7868138e43c1d9bff095b2fe087bb2fdf4066
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability. This exploit is designed to decode and execute a Portable Executable (PE) file, likely a secondary stage payload. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections strongly indicates an exploit targeting the Equation Editor component.

Heuristics 4

  • 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_off00000043.bin
492b0213475af75194163674c2f0305a1051bf0abf8c89de4b8855b5a12f028c
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x43 112115 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.