Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ea02b2f047f7738…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

17.5 KB First seen: 2022-06-18
MD5: 2664c291da2b5ccd3f401d5207a9a268 SHA-1: d19aa839d40e57d60058d1b8d89b5a978dbcdb2a SHA-256: 5ea02b2f047f77380f1ce3425291460c5ed2cc3b82b3d97f56be41f4fb76c51f
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering heuristics related to Equation Editor exploitation and OLE object activation. This indicates a likely attempt to exploit a client-side vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882 is common for this pattern) to achieve code execution. The presence of OLE object data suggests the document is designed to deliver and activate a malicious payload, commonly seen in spearphishing attachments.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000827.bin
9f8a813e1ea3f0e802c9bb48857ef33f5d4d5b8e7ac087999a9494c789de08ac
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x827 3754 bytes