Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6435692226e98564…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

462.2 KB
MD5: ffb31cc89f24dabfd7760cc01dc36b9c SHA-1: 3835ae69986a6249a274b347cc5b6b1e45a4b3d5 SHA-256: 6435692226e985648fa245cbc6d3eeeefd834a8d77f2d448c5521b836e9e8db8
202 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 OLE object with a high entropy payload, strongly indicating the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, which in this case is likely used to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off00000c07.bin' is the decoded content of this OLE object.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000c07.bin
114d765688af5afd305eac480f6618212b8799a855e37eb0add2e4395f2cce63
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xC07 104008 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.96, consistent with packed or encrypted content.