Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5005e7afde271d98…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

262.9 KB
MD5: 53e3af3f088bd342d46090f02a6d70dc SHA-1: 4a4b34f7931ece118d9957862142725f678c154c SHA-256: 5005e7afde271d98eade4a6c8a73ec32a9b9f816e12986f62db22d643d97dcd4
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with decoded Equation Editor payload, indicating exploitation of a known vulnerability. The presence of \objupdate further suggests automatic activation of the embedded object. The decoded object is a PE file, likely a secondary payload. The document body contains only a numerical string, providing no contextual lure.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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_off00000078.bin
23ce4f3fd1186dfaaaa8ae71bc73e8e099f2cc8a3ea67f75b6026495e99c4c06
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x78 134466 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.