Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68bc79e856d58022…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

10.6 KB
MD5: a5b1ff166e2e2b3c6f11b020202bcde3 SHA-1: 63d09f2cc98c8b13e8ee08b70da437f7a62e5923 SHA-256: 68bc79e856d58022eb4ba4f217763c2811418c5fd1b92f43e46272dfb00c05a3
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing embedded OLE object data, specifically triggering critical heuristics for Equation Editor exploitation (CVE-2017-11882). This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in the Equation Editor component to achieve code execution. The presence of ` tf1 0 s24 0 s24 tlch bidis charset0 Times New Roman;` suggests it's a malformed RTF file, likely intended to be delivered via spearphishing.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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_off00000969.bin
3d582b64cd8bfc238d15468a81ae9b659d1e513fc0b33746326462b2a138fa1d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x969 4168 bytes