Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab8dbd73ac6c0a2…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

70.3 KB First seen: 2023-03-03
MD5: 47ba745d4daece3ca4c29124321cd766 SHA-1: 4b68b171212cb4b5276e3194f6fb66133a0944e3 SHA-256: 2ab8dbd73ac6c0a2bfd43ee00190abbfe755bf10d9faffab19d39531e7cd1e16
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The document body contains a lure to 'Enable editing' to bypass security measures. The presence of the OLE object and the specific CVE exploit strongly indicate the document's purpose is to execute arbitrary code, likely for a follow-on download and execution stage.

Heuristics 4

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • \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_off000021a4.bin
b6c16704dc5c935c44147cc777747805b1c7c467b2c0409b24e275683b479e79
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x21A4 4161 bytes