Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 835c31305270db53…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

9.2 KB First seen: 2022-09-22
MD5: d1a2b4b42f27c89c85ce1937819b991d SHA-1: 569a43f4a4df085610bbcfd8721afa3a530cd3a2 SHA-256: 835c31305270db530a0fd618e16d320d0386e9682cdd72d336b814612d24413e
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that exploits CVE-2017-11882 through the Equation Editor. The document body contains a lure instructing the user to 'Enable editing', a common tactic to bypass macro security. The exploitation of the Equation Editor allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Obfuscated Equation Editor ProgID + activation critical CVE related RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation.3 ProgID from top-level \objdata hex after nested RTF junk groups are ignored, and the document also contains \objemb plus \objupdate activation. This is an obfuscated Equation Editor exploit surface associated with CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 families, but no exact malformed MTEF CVE primitive was recovered from this object.
  • Equation Editor activation — CVE-2017-11882 related high CVE related CVE_2017_11882_ACTIVATION_RELATED
    RTF decodes to an Equation.3 ProgID and requests OLE activation with \objemb plus \objupdate. This reaches the legacy Equation Editor attack surface used by CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802 documents, but the malformed MTEF/native payload needed for stronger 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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000db9.bin
ae95e7c5f032b77a21b6a46dd3ceccdb81ad4174b81537e37b025f1f12c0b598		 rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xDB9 1927 bytes

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