Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88bd3a10fdd98dc8…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

9.4 KB
MD5: a512508ddc8ab3f994652d9c72f4c3df SHA-1: 39c27e50b8a20478f6e0961c70d5681b9c20e3d9 SHA-256: 88bd3a10fdd98dc8b40e3aedc587fb6c8a55aa9196a6ac27a05c3ebd459233fc
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The presence of ".objdata" and ".objupdate" sections, along with the critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR heuristic, strongly indicates exploitation of this known vulnerability. This technique is commonly used to deliver a second-stage payload, likely leading to arbitrary code execution.

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
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000065.bin
da10e63248478205c08567ca2aedd621bd7d9dde33c712f2e2c4137779ef247a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x65 4664 bytes