Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28e41e8cc995c7e4…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

27.8 KB First seen: 2022-11-30
MD5: 54d44fd164775f48934f95be9210712c SHA-1: 21b6eb36fda7271f1943d4f5a5b5f7b145ad4ae2 SHA-256: 28e41e8cc995c7e4c893c9719785f91d54c880c530b6fd34cdefbb93531a5b1f
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with a split Equation Editor ProgID, indicating an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability. The \objupdate directive forces OLE activation, and the document body includes a lure to 'Enable editing', suggesting a malicious payload delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 4

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000056da.bin
96941575a55b29ab9fd284b809dcaf64ac089062d8fdb205e1c6fa4f55475a34
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x56DA 1733 bytes