Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75f850ba89365ce2…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

416.4 KB
MD5: 7c7aa6acb6cbbf9e7861b4dc2c4b3b1b SHA-1: 2f82f9461dafbfec82ff42bd82a8bc85119629d2 SHA-256: 75f850ba89365ce28d1a3448e551a49e54f5d2b12887433bbf916b1c57258c52
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882, likely exploited via the Equation Editor. This exploit is known to execute arbitrary code, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to deliver a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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_off00001f54.bin
ade7d46ddb4388cdde8fd79bac343e9aa11cf1b36a043b9e1e6f80a27e74ddaa
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1F54 104004 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.96, consistent with packed or encrypted content.