Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7183ce9384241044…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

310.5 KB
MD5: 423f1e40f84e4f79641827d7dd829684 SHA-1: 7667a61734d91d6b16dfca1aeb9bc2423d7aa678 SHA-256: 7183ce9384241044076dfe359c4b5731ec3a3fa6766b05875f4be6ed8e51872f
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This object, when activated, decodes and executes a PE file. The presence of `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` and `CVE_2017_11882_RELATED` heuristics strongly indicates this exploit. The decoded object, `objdata_00_off00000df3.bin`, is likely a downloader for a secondary payload, though its specific function cannot be determined from static analysis alone.

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_off00000df3.bin
f94e95fc12c1d4d7ac6880211b0232eba97e00b0bc67b4f55d2abb2494a64266
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xDF3 156920 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.