Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e359e4c8747f588…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

655.6 KB
MD5: 98bd826d197ccecc71905acf6dbddea7 SHA-1: bba3eb25846930805fc4dc84b5dc7ac3a1530f17 SHA-256: 8e359e4c8747f588609213102bf949af6341962b4e28651dabf9644c0ae14165
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with a suspicious Equation Editor ProgID, indicating an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability. The \objupdate directive suggests that the embedded object is automatically activated upon opening, leading to arbitrary code execution. This is a common delivery mechanism for malware.

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_off0000005b.bin
6fcc4abb8c8fab64a71ffbab1dbf225eb48bc8007e31028011412bf1e3dd6635
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5B 335580 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.