Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7536f9bad9507f87…

MALICIOUS

RTF

84.6 KB
MD5: 79b68aed98bce5c5e71b02b215f915ca SHA-1: eb02c4433aaa70da0cc3bc2f3905f8955b764f61 SHA-256: 7536f9bad9507f873f8ee30ee5183bbe9b8ab4f264f47c8f64a9a6e46900ef1c
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains OLE object data, specifically triggering the CVE-2017-11882 Equation Editor vulnerability. This vulnerability is known to be exploited for client-side execution of arbitrary code. The presence of a decoded OLE1 object with high entropy further supports the exploitation of this known vulnerability.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • \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_off00000075.bin
ce7990eaf9fe9bfa1886116c58a8aba5c551931a2aeb19989e8827bc3486fa3b
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x75 43176 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.