Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32f77b5b7f1ef4be…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

745.5 KB
MD5: 167efbca43f4e314c7d6b4afb6129342 SHA-1: 6d5307b934ce71f30aa720f1d3bdd0effc6ce212 SHA-256: 32f77b5b7f1ef4be93849b3565d1001ecda0bdfec3c20f75cbd5d86ec79f2129
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.002 Component Object Model Hijacking

The RTF document contains an embedded Equation Editor object that is vulnerable to CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the object is activated, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of OLE object data and the specific CVE firing strongly indicate this exploit vector.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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_2018_0802-6825822-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6825822-0
  • \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 2 \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_off00000095.bin
bb6154ad3a8219f3e422ff1ea271888cdcd869dded5846def61c544f50f87384
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x95 381513 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.