Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39703d944e2a9768…

MALICIOUS

RTF

201.3 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2021-04-10
MD5: 1c1dde1a7875c88a55f43d7372ab7c62 SHA-1: ae94fe47b05f4fd663265f9d12c30fe19ceecea7 SHA-256: 39703d944e2a97685e974214a99ff501475d8b94150d28c1390b83009fc6d2b2
240 Risk Score

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object high CVE related RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF references Equation.3 ProgID alongside \objdata — likely Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798) but without the binary CLSID payload, so flagged at HIGH instead of CRITICAL.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6624871-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6624871-1
  • Equation Editor object class critical RTF_OBJCLASS_EQUATION
    Object class 'equation.3' references Equation Editor
  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000100.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x100 16785 bytes
SHA-256: 6e0aaefd200f9a7f9e9ce6ee247e9a41f92a4d61ab7554512ad9c8e2dc3a1720