Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79114810d9bde073…

MALICIOUS

RTF

35.4 KB First seen: 2023-08-03
MD5: f453b83cb4f6c27b4796816e0f628abf SHA-1: 9ac829ea257d3129202c8154248335c0f229e633 SHA-256: 79114810d9bde07318f8a7790e17b9dd7f377f36c1d4b555f941c9fe5e139385
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor, indicated by the RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR heuristic. The RTF_OBJAUTLINK and RTF_OBJUPDATE heuristics suggest that this object is designed to be activated automatically upon opening, likely exploiting a known vulnerability such as CVE-2017-11882. The document body, though partially encoded, contains text related to marketing and strategy, suggesting a lure to trick the user into enabling content and triggering the exploit.

Heuristics 4

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001ce7.bin
f361fe800f268d175792aa9afe242f2793c32794dc253407159deecf265807dc
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1CE7 1408 bytes