Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b3c51ad737048f2…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

631.9 KB
MD5: eb316ce727b403d3ebd7c5488f0078c7 SHA-1: c033cc49e519cd0726e44b08a8d3bc6d554b1bed SHA-256: 8b3c51ad737048f2aeba25e5ed530095c0b29f3fa4e7b1c1f2cc5d6d8cca8b55
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, specifically triggering the Equation Editor vulnerability (RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR). The ".objupdate" heuristic indicates that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically, likely to execute a malicious payload. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off00000a7e.bin' is the result of decoding this embedded object, suggesting it contains the secondary stage of the attack.

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
  • \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_off00000a7e.bin
349035242da9ed20824220c40ff499d797995ed90057fdb49872bff777662ae0
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA7E 129081 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.97, consistent with packed or encrypted content.