Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79c02f97d91303a0…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

153.9 KB
MD5: 0fd961006b546e3bd14d0509edfc088b SHA-1: 272ba3d67c119994e0ad2e66b97a70d54f9ac004 SHA-256: 79c02f97d91303a0914bac22d277c3ec865fce47a050828d3530cd16ea117123
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that is strongly indicative of the CVE-2017-11882 Equation Editor vulnerability. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections further supports this exploitation vector.

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_off00000044.bin
13773e9e0e8b0d5f28d307a88fa29ae4b92851695c529160a9b3e4e42099c115
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x44 78629 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.