Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f98ea16777a5776…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

143.9 KB
MD5: 2f3a11fee0806180b4ecebc1d65ac4fa SHA-1: 91dacdaf5cf58937206ef5eda1e946349a1d9228 SHA-256: 7f98ea16777a57762440172c410e52472f72fdf8b7cb0c483f0c30e800a6babe
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains OLE object data associated with CVE-2017-11882, indicating exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability. This heuristic firing suggests the file attempts to execute a payload directly, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. No specific family could be identified.

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_off00000078.bin
4d8e9e4cfb0c992ee9cfe8face4ceb7a83d7120666bc92eb962ec735488996ce
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x78 73508 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.