Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a30d9ec6e0e15a9…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

484.1 KB
MD5: 7ece53e30caf70c35622a44d83717eae SHA-1: f0d5893f3a391c583401609a51fb4691f2fa6c32 SHA-256: 6a30d9ec6e0e15a9cdaf8d14c16ac2066b65a9a6f53c0f0816cb7713404363c5
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object related to Equation Editor, specifically triggering CVE-2017-11882. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely a second-stage payload, when the document is opened. The presence of the ".bin" file and high entropy further suggests a packed or obfuscated executable payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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_off0000005a.bin
a09d0d9e82f2f9d26971ddef5364f834a26dc8bf94f86e86b96b5dae7c62951c
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5A 247752 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.