Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 289124e1db202958…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

497.0 KB
MD5: 1593e922ae544c88092ee7a9a14958e3 SHA-1: a85cc8be45f3abdf0034cf2851afaf07ad2442ee SHA-256: 289124e1db2029582b341a61cecf670757517c2099d330cb691b78c27fa974ce
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 decodes to a PE file, leveraging the Equation Editor vulnerability. The ".objupdate" heuristic indicates that the OLE object is designed to be activated automatically, likely leading to the execution of the embedded payload. The extracted artifact "objdata_00_off00001aa0.bin" is the decoded PE file.

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_off00001aa0.bin
e15114c6b7d81dc0a96fd8cfd7663620fc1b2c75d9c42af67582028b217ad6d1
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1AA0 251017 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.