Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b1143370200435d…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

12.5 KB
MD5: edc108c906844d62fc6b8f2a44cb2716 SHA-1: a1c1723d14220e1e347d825b6149613179d09038 SHA-256: 8b1143370200435d1c57802c7b9a88a14296252255262f6263affabe86658650
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The ClamAV detection name directly indicates the exploit used. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • \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_off00000f4c.bin
b46f765c7a9c6cab64dde9d145164af1547bd196bd5843aef5ff04054746e100
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xF4C 4154 bytes