Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49343620b3e7e039…

MALICIOUS

RTF

156.7 KB First seen: 2024-06-27
MD5: 177edc9981ff2ccd6ff3210a0cad9612 SHA-1: 9a2ccc087b953ad8bf136845c13f6d39b223a2ee SHA-256: 49343620b3e7e03903c84236c260baf7275ee347594e039c7337d628dae66378
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The RTF document contains an OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This technique is commonly used to deliver a second-stage payload. The presence of RTF_OBJDATA, RTF_OBJAUTLINK, and RTF_OBJUPDATE heuristics strongly indicates the exploitation of this known vulnerability for arbitrary code execution.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • 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.
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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_off00001f82.bin
a1d9a7c1a5f5ac82830acdc0b480c4c2c2ef3fccbd57f935e1bd7f9ebbcacb56
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1F82 3665 bytes