Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6534744c12015122…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

187.6 KB
MD5: b908ce8570a7b2dd6cab1d88e941c3af SHA-1: 6bc6c7d9868205dd6569f6c73b6f1f592c5095b5 SHA-256: 6534744c120151220d30b4c9d000f257fca852b14e924891e03e8d3b11e34f2d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an RTF document containing embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. No specific malware family could be identified.

Heuristics 3

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation 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.
  • \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 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001ec8.bin
ca592cc2a5bcdac12de85d762663e79f2cd9b9c86e467206290678cee2d666d3
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1EC8 3635 bytes