Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 805a97e07fbf0751…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

492.9 KB
MD5: ae8aa796d43bc033d5c7b68fae6f9545 SHA-1: 42682e45d9e536e87752030efce27a1006886621 SHA-256: 805a97e07fbf07515a2ce563c70b586aedfcdb01cb8d69a2e5308a43d59a9690
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections strongly indicates an exploit targeting this component.

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_off00000043.bin
8d81cb995ca8273c93ec5ffd37a3e1830aaff886739cf6b7e217f94011a87395
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x43 252190 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.