Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ae5bb65fe97959f…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

521.0 KB
MD5: 5d70f853c62e03f61e0ad43f4a96db4c SHA-1: 9d42c23efbe67ec377e77b694c6d2782ac9d24da SHA-256: 8ae5bb65fe97959f7ff2f34fbf055a94a35fb0c9853448ddf8d20b25dc4e4889
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering heuristics related to Equation Editor vulnerabilities. The presence of `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` and `RTF_OBJUPDATE` strongly suggests an exploit targeting Equation Editor to achieve arbitrary code execution. The `RTF_OBJDATA` heuristic indicates the presence of embedded OLE object data, which is likely the exploit payload. No document body or scripts were extracted, but the RTF structure itself is indicative of a classic exploit delivery mechanism.

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
  • 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 2 \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_off00001b80.bin
c61cb1f956c69106d500ba7fb7214255ea634f137da28db17d2fa4902646724a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B80 175675 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.