Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d79aeeaeda66f9a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.1 KB First seen: 2019-03-18
MD5: 020244c3b1dddbcff9773b382b25112f SHA-1: 022400ea2ee5ea2a722fa74e55aeb415f3ca8b41 SHA-256: 3d79aeeaeda66f9ad45f2221c62dd3ecd02866b0c6b355287c0a67f028b01f2a
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics related to Equation Editor exploits, including CVE-2017-11882. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in the Equation Editor component to achieve code execution on the victim's machine. The ClamAV detection further confirms the presence of this known exploit.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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 medium 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_off0000003c.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3C 4134 bytes
SHA-256: 9628a47a085e0febf38259068642adf8b21a829c14a9bfde08cd29be4989c2e7
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_GETPC_CALL