MALICIOUS
180
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious File
The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that leverages the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in the Equation Editor. The presence of `RTF_OBJDATA`, `RTF_OBJEMB`, `CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE`, `RTF_OBJUPDATE`, and `RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM` heuristics strongly indicates exploitation of this known vulnerability. This technique is commonly used to download and execute a second-stage payload.
Heuristics 5
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Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVERTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
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Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAMRTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMBRTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off00000eb1.binb9820fae928a5ea8fc976743b213da874e3a761a3b377d5443ddddc0874c6041 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0xEB1 | 4308 bytes |
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