Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f51da0a7034a3b4…

MALICIOUS

RTF

104.3 KB
MD5: ae5000f3bdc247052fa71307d6004005 SHA-1: 717ece96f38f6c290e0b93faa12d5e3f24471f0f SHA-256: 4f51da0a7034a3b491bf21d56896d2cc97f5f240911abfaeacfe73d80bd84a34
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with a CLSID indicative of the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of \objupdate suggests that the embedded object is designed to be activated, likely leading to the exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability. This is a common technique for delivering a malicious payload.

Heuristics 3

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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_off0000009a.bin
9d359a842db54ff59fb514c7078895de32894184148de259e2634456837588ee
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9A 32705 bytes