Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6006d3df8905ad52…

MALICIOUS

RTF

189.6 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2021-04-10
MD5: 25d8d258dc549b10e4f3f3af02384875 SHA-1: 3b7cc1e3382580f7a662cd925484a79459ffd5cb SHA-256: 6006d3df8905ad52b9ede8d7c3fba62db0edb89a6b03c83c56ce674618f1eaf4
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_off00000100.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x100 11466 bytes
SHA-256: a2f0a363b4271e7a3f7ef3eb49f5a3014f407357ddf2fe7899387b6b219041e6

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