Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6520b87b306eadc8…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

314.4 KB
MD5: bf5becd411994bc75e61acd227588dc6 SHA-1: 873ef78ea1a896a950b2efe02afc2191aa3a56cf SHA-256: 6520b87b306eadc88a7f1846db167cfe940dfc99343b028b74b138a8e4fcd08d
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) to execute a secondary payload. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the exploitation of this known vulnerability. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off00000042.bin' is the decoded payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED
    RTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF 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.
  • \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
  • 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_off00000042.bin
06406ebaddc6c32ab766d085e400b85644c2a8ae9f8c695cdcb2c695e808d8a8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x42 160845 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.