Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e44c08d77b4172d…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

321.1 KB
MD5: 641ebb999adb7f82b76d716b267c8143 SHA-1: d3dadc52c42c2fb0f17c6b38c9833ca2e1ceed0a SHA-256: 2e44c08d77b4172d367f6e6a0b6d0a3e9786a2021f6e3ef0a259340ae81e7723
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, specifically triggering heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This indicates the document is designed to exploit this known flaw upon opening. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as a known exploit. No document body text or scripts were available for analysis, but the RTF structure and heuristics strongly suggest a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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_off00001b49.bin
0741d19992d1824f431d157a411fc5b47d550d5114a341f495f4537cfd364c42
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B49 160835 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.