Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 348b63b41a15b903…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

525.8 KB
MD5: 671e03e2716dbae08ac58283251f853f SHA-1: c27352308825b150ea4751f5e77bb6dc43bda4da SHA-256: 348b63b41a15b9030d8ad037856b182f5ce748f2727fbe4650839d538c030927
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of \objdata and \objupdate heuristics strongly indicates an attempt to exploit this known vulnerability for arbitrary code execution. The extracted artifact, objdata_00_off00000052.bin, likely contains the malicious payload. The document body is a numerical string, providing no contextual lure.

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
  • 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_off00000052.bin
b1ca3aec8aba1dc404b693d3b2a563b85ff11e959c58535075dbca80ee1f7393
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x52 269061 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.