Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6887285e8467e4bc…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

2.81 MB Created: 2019-09-17 13:59:00
MD5: fbef99ce62ec244296f38bc821c5f7fd SHA-1: 2100654f5a8fc7151b332680cd6cbf9781ef0606 SHA-256: 6887285e8467e4bc8b2167ca00f0523859e4e9fb71c17604a5f79e9a0ada8a7b
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document containing embedded OLE objects, specifically targeting the Equation Editor component. Critical heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2017-8759, which are known vulnerabilities allowing for arbitrary code execution. The presence of these exploits suggests the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening.

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759
    RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
  • 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.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0029e7a1.bin
79ad37abea0f1f257b277bf16d32b05d7db434cf11be43a12431e5c4f9cc073f		 rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x29E7A1 3732 bytes

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