Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4419795a5f82eed2…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

282.4 KB
MD5: 61d2d431528ad374f6d2e1137c76a612 SHA-1: 3b5c01feeef4f2c4a2ae71d8ee1f7c89206cdf05 SHA-256: 4419795a5f82eed2f276af791057a97b5b30d44912f98b4557c9cb7d159f1775
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with a suspicious Equation Editor ProgID, indicating exploitation of a known vulnerability. The ".objupdate" directive suggests automatic activation of the embedded object, likely leading to the execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of OLE object data and the specific RTF heuristics strongly point to a classic exploit delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 4

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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_off0000004e.bin
684182334146a5de2df79eac7f19972ab024020b901b80d81b674a236974d26c
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x4E 144492 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.