Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56022a0b21f9748a…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

496.6 KB
MD5: dea63c378ffc98d50548209db44c4758 SHA-1: 849e245d872ec11d6ee9fdb50e5910a62cebbe8d SHA-256: 56022a0b21f9748a878b0269088ff3316aa42335a048905061fba18854275b69
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as a decoded Equation Editor payload. This indicates an exploit targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of ".bin" in the extracted artifact name suggests a binary payload was carved out.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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_off00001a7c.bin
a83b59d6ef12a8962048208f0814a5477e508b9d6082a4c65dc4a5ca88ceff5d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1A7C 250785 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.