Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37d7aa935abf4108…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

374.5 KB
MD5: e9260ff7bb6e35d8fa72e725c017b6bd SHA-1: 78f98dfacba3e97edc359934ed96733c28ae9ecb SHA-256: 37d7aa935abf410814d084177c16b5a7a6353e18ef72749187bd1b5bb343da9d
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-1999-0001). The `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` and `RTF_OBJAUTLINK` heuristics indicate that this object is designed to be automatically activated and likely executes a secondary payload. The `RTF_OBJDATA` heuristic further confirms the presence of embedded object data, which is characteristic of exploit documents.

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
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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_off00000920.bin
f1c74650ac23773b6f3ec07836f54f78d30272bd8e7bca8be74cb01a1da039e2
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x920 63545 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.94, consistent with packed or encrypted content.