Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 413d52fd3d258fac…

MALICIOUS

RTF

14.3 KB First seen: 2019-04-18
MD5: 8c0d43785025e8db576f0900ed300507 SHA-1: e7bdf8e8623bf3e33523a143511eb5a46cd31d77 SHA-256: 413d52fd3d258fac47355550613c75251029a87223406c33784747379bfb8690
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). ClamAV explicitly identifies this exploit. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections further confirms the exploitation of OLE object handling. This technique is commonly used to achieve arbitrary code execution, typically for downloading and running a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000014bd.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x14BD 4667 bytes
SHA-256: 4f05aaca1658f5a9ca1ab97dcc1368bd93625b74e9bb0b8e4f940a880b8a41a4