MALICIOUS
135
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1559.001 Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model
The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering critical heuristics related to the Equation Editor. The presence of \objupdate indicates that the embedded OLE object is designed to be activated automatically, leading to the exploitation of a vulnerability. This strongly suggests an attack pattern focused on exploiting the Equation Editor component to achieve arbitrary code execution.
Heuristics 3
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Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF 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.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off0000009e.bin701b20489a0d805671dcbe49d8a544b947b6ff8238a66af8556d20c360855b5e |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x9E | 50366 bytes |
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