Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87e099969395eac5…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

610.3 KB
MD5: 0ee7a74bee0110b23f6066f084a5c4a0 SHA-1: fdba7639c988270665661950951eff993a143099 SHA-256: 87e099969395eac5eea1c52c30ebdd55d69338026ec5bcfe3d6f93dfadc5fa26
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that exploits the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This exploit is designed to decode and execute a Portable Executable (PE) file, likely serving as a downloader for further malicious activity. The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections further indicates the embedding of executable content.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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_off00000062.bin
f2a49f9916a6c2bbf466b1e34f5b0f592b21ea36b0f712f5a7aaaec77d61f9e4
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x62 312350 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.