Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7254273b6d2f3bd1…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

95.9 KB
MD5: 5f0b47fb2e7b43deda6bea082fe5b01f SHA-1: 7ee244c2664bb2efb87ef9ec97a53510898a0c7d SHA-256: 7254273b6d2f3bd1e257a0f49bd752b22a3c04a6ab382fcd7d9c97b195b88025
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that leverages the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of the Ole10Native stream and the specific CLSID further confirms this exploitation vector.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • \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_off00001125.bin
defa140c953f170c5df827a6235e867eca3219bc5a531f475a4929530b8976a1
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1125 4280 bytes