Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27c382c7875688db…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.2 KB First seen: 2018-11-13
MD5: 49ee599352e1cc20741f38af367acadc SHA-1: cb6648d180f0402da74270450695e2fc7b045a47 SHA-256: 27c382c7875688dbe2540e3507d36b29071beca044d10c52dc82f461856368c4
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics related to Equation Editor and object updates, indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000003b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3B 3646 bytes
SHA-256: 1e58fc64d47598089032e15defda3dc251794a8a8cb14b4ff513485dfe1ce06d