Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57f2d9eeaa00c821…

MALICIOUS

RTF

55.0 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2021-03-31
MD5: 5583e69ccbbf9a93124fb448f1fb5a76 SHA-1: 4cb7f0b9c67d9c990463cc740b34ed49e9cba8e2 SHA-256: 57f2d9eeaa00c821c17aba3226baede457232a3a43edbe683311d01c99a2bea5
240 Risk Score

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object high CVE related RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF references Equation.3 ProgID alongside \objdata — likely Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798) but without the binary CLSID payload, so flagged at HIGH instead of CRITICAL.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6624871-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6624871-1
  • Equation Editor object class critical RTF_OBJCLASS_EQUATION
    Object class 'equation.3' references Equation Editor
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000fe.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xFE 17264 bytes
SHA-256: d041d68e578a94d00d4231f336763682886782ef316632a337d81a652136efa9