Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b50465a5b4e9de3…

MALICIOUS

RTF

133.2 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2021-04-01
MD5: fe9710b92d17ef46d8c79d2723372add SHA-1: a5aed9516a008526fcb6f7be1f1eb36ed02aaef2 SHA-256: 7b50465a5b4e9de331f92b430e1477a494561737ca77758710fe2e83bb50ef03
240 Risk Score

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object high CVE related RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF references Equation.3 ProgID alongside \objdata — likely Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798) but without the binary CLSID payload, so flagged at HIGH instead of CRITICAL.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6624871-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2018_0802-6624871-1
  • Equation Editor object class critical RTF_OBJCLASS_EQUATION
    Object class 'equation.3' references Equation Editor
  • \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_off000000fe.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xFE 9067 bytes
SHA-256: 82513c23f6a09931a429f380821a75afa8aab39fc0cb673edacfb6582f290097

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