Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c16eadd24f23c40…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

458.9 KB
MD5: 1d0de33e1189e1e3992a630f91d455e2 SHA-1: ff7f435f3e63ca939f569876b35a83877fa6d97c SHA-256: 3c16eadd24f23c40ea99ef75c6602baf37d173781fdf283264cc511a64bb5ca8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that exploits the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability is known to be used for delivering secondary payloads. The decoded object is a PE file, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code. The high entropy of the extracted artifact further suggests it's an obfuscated executable.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED
    RTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
  • 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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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_off00000c60.bin
c07aa7819fc91010c2365f782251216a96aad4a1b7a51c3b52ad7e61649bb9d2
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xC60 233305 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.