Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ce7fff83a1e56ae…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

92.0 KB
MD5: 65600ab5b0618d589fee7af54dec8cbe SHA-1: 71fee0299ae93fd79fadddea66651405f40c3ecf SHA-256: 7ce7fff83a1e56ae66a1a70a57d7fdaaae260666e90de4de6f78048f4c184f09
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR). The ".objupdate" directive indicates that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically, leading to code execution. While no specific script was extracted, this exploit is commonly used to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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_off000013de.bin
085f9084711fefb86d622f3a69ce461363f3e8bb3f9905c92769e7e15050acc1
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x13DE 4211 bytes