Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fa094704ebfe389…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

47.3 KB
MD5: 169678fe0845f2446d51c9e29040f8ac SHA-1: c421f01a1fdcd8814aa7cb184e9fddb254739eb0 SHA-256: 5fa094704ebfe389f1ade0b840e32b7034791317f8c692d19926a59da58af2eb
180 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 object data, specifically triggering heuristics related to CVE-2017-11882. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in the Equation Editor component to execute arbitrary code. The presence of ` objupdate` and `Ole10Native` stream further confirms the exploitation attempt. No document body or script content was available for further analysis.

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_off00002048.bin
b1b90ff153da65bdd4e5a4f9ac4ec863218d004a0f66221a3ec8b8ac32b672c0
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2048 4163 bytes