Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a6beeb95af6b3ca…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

122.3 KB
MD5: 4ac56961be249ab2a1f4afca472cd66a SHA-1: 03c8e060a7839be00dc23d00e7e43f7f9f5eea8a SHA-256: 5a6beeb95af6b3cad843e2e482e2eafeb64c82a5040174bd3f93bd798295b9e6
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating the file's primary purpose is to exploit this known flaw. The embedded object's CLSID is 0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • \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 2 \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_off00001da9.bin
87d69bfadc7d9acdb30b2d69ace258da679633a04e544e005c2c45b6229bca0d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1DA9 4154 bytes