Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8af9082895b93e19…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

70.4 KB
MD5: c51d8ae93097ca45110fec20e5cab452 SHA-1: 970c2ffe7b38dcf803d432ef6ab72140e0a7fc68 SHA-256: 8af9082895b93e1952e76c069fe9047e2d02cde059ce34655df5960761ca5664
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor. This technique is commonly used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` and `RTF_OBJUPDATE` heuristics strongly indicates this attack vector. No document body text was available for analysis, but the heuristics are sufficient to infer the malicious intent.

Heuristics 4

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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_off000017b7.bin
94bc725d0c05b8a954425eddb1cd1b46bf6bf9eea771448863fec13574195b1b
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x17B7 32772 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.