Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bde2ad937153d68…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

369.6 KB
MD5: c194bc7e59b385622d8d0168ba74644d SHA-1: a128b3d60a555df6a165aaf0293ef024cd432b77 SHA-256: 3bde2ad937153d68a084a34cd460817a4989d1e461b4d5ceb4ba2288cc230d1f
122 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. This vulnerability is known to be used to download and execute arbitrary code. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the exploitation of the Equation Editor and the presence of a PE file within the OLE object, suggesting a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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_off00001d21.bin
d281f553518595dc11c84a4a4bd79fafffbd216ae58e2533141c9575326faa76
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1D21 185332 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.