Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fdd3e3a66956b79…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

809.7 KB
MD5: 46f80abc1386f97bb8245d2c716a1c73 SHA-1: 356a25c462b51d8b1c962901f433f4775801d30f SHA-256: 6fdd3e3a66956b79b5fd8e6203b74d002943faa1ef4abd650699a2d9676441ac
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 decoded PE payload. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections further indicates the intent to activate and execute embedded content. This exploit is commonly delivered via spearphishing attachments.

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_off0000004d.bin
38ff9670b25a24a75fc7a597cc1335076c96e064ffcf544e2ab1509ba7aca689
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x4D 414399 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.