MALICIOUS
180
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability through the Equation Editor. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The presence of the 'EQUatIOn.3' class name is a strong indicator of this specific exploit.
Heuristics 5
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Equation Editor activation — CVE-2017-11882 related high CVE_2017_11882_ACTIVATION_RELATEDRTF decodes to an Equation.3 ProgID and requests OLE activation with \objemb plus \objupdate. This reaches the legacy Equation Editor attack surface used by CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802 documents, but the malformed MTEF/native payload needed for stronger attribution was not recovered.
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Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMBRTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off00000f39.bin14e38ed4a00a828bf2d8f2f5ba7951cf846e4dd56fb254116c5263af53fe0f33 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0xF39 | 1788 bytes |
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