Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e5d0929a23d9239…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

310.7 KB
MD5: 7a3e5b886547c1dc69707e8ebc49164c SHA-1: 5d986639838db803ecc37c9d0b98916063dde4be SHA-256: 7e5d0929a23d923994c3b544b5e9b75c08b6871f070f67c0da719f8b4d4f1e9b
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains an OLE object with decoded Equation Editor payload and PE information, indicating an exploit. The \objupdate heuristic suggests that the OLE object is activated automatically. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off00000bf3.bin' is likely the dropped second-stage payload. The attack pattern is consistent with exploiting Equation Editor to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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_off00000bf3.bin
27a0777b9da23716d797e0dc2415401c93125ac9ac33903544b063fe44d0ee02
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xBF3 157280 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.