Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 864da43992dedfcc…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

379.6 KB
MD5: b0a8a86702446b4ad27365d0f7f122ea SHA-1: 4eb249d8250ced20ee377d991dc05072460bb173 SHA-256: 864da43992dedfcc9be04a90a8116ea2ce7c597628c179cf6eb240a10933cae3
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-1997-2455 or similar). The ".objupdate" directive indicates that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically upon opening the document, leading to the execution of the exploit. The presence of RTF_OBJDATA and RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR heuristics strongly suggests this attack vector.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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_off00001195.bin
2649e8e33b7e2411f4fe0e3a1ffb1f23d1238a6d076fe4f2db334065a00b5759
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1195 64072 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.93, consistent with packed or encrypted content.