Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7044dbfa2231cb…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

433.8 KB
MD5: 2d4df2f62fda82889769209a6d14ca72 SHA-1: 1b05329e6372fa774a55d9ac1e404fe7846853f4 SHA-256: 5e7044dbfa2231cbc73efdb6fc42ba145d58c6517d569a795dbbccea6120fb2e
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data, specifically related to Microsoft Equation Editor. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882, which is known to be exploited for client execution. The embedded object, objdata_00_off00001421.bin, is likely the malicious payload or a component used to download it.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED
    RTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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
  • 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_off00001421.bin
50ad0a8c444c3668f222d1c9208872f57fec8752f37e7dfc52f9dd753b38e48e
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1421 219360 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.