MALICIOUS
140
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
The sample is an RTF document that exploits the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. The document body contains text that attempts to trick the user into enabling editing, which is a common lure for macro-based malware. The exploitation of the Equation Editor allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload.
Heuristics 4
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CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
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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 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LUREDocument instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off0000c05a.bin0854f4cbca7afc852b8e16930401a68138b0c18c17d6a2de383ba58967b54eb3 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0xC05A | 4250 bytes |
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