Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63fd57f5460f8e17…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

117.7 KB First seen: 2026-04-16
MD5: a0abdebf89d29c7f14c5e3732e933a4f SHA-1: eeeba7967e27f453286be3b4ffae2086a33b0288 SHA-256: 63fd57f5460f8e17045e41aed1b601f6fc6962f0de897b1d8a5f71d24dfd77e1
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, identified as a likely exploit for CVE-2017-11882. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, and the presence of the Ole10Native stream suggests it's intended to download and run a secondary payload. The document body appears to be obfuscated or encoded data, providing no direct clues about the lure.

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 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_off00001361.bin
c8f9608b566543ddb9d05f00c54ebe676519f6f134db998bac50c9f6aff16d83
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1361 4291 bytes