Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 551352fe3cd2466a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.9 KB First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: d31c53784aed84442b52541e5256ca00 SHA-1: ed7e23caa56985ff488eb23d270d896d141153cd SHA-256: 551352fe3cd2466a1ffb754ac705fb0f22bce2069abab12ced83f96dc538878b
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This technique is commonly used to deliver a malicious payload, leading to arbitrary code execution on the victim's system. No specific family could be identified from the available evidence.

Heuristics 3

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001c9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1C9 3582 bytes
SHA-256: 591ae7774ed6f0cf29b0102d8207b4a54b760d518063eadf451c9cd1eaf132c9