Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 917c41ce5cd885ff…

MALICIOUS

RTF

9.2 KB First seen: 2018-06-14
MD5: 38280a5370ff99ceb763e0179fa881ab SHA-1: bbb46e5fc1f168c9c7ab4e10d09e52a0ddd00038 SHA-256: 917c41ce5cd885ffd5aaeef0057ce6e48cbb3a3fa2433782f6e6bfa90a1f1882
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms the presence of this known exploit.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • 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_off0000003c.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3C 4663 bytes
SHA-256: 4719616bf7f09795c96a0c072f2c9490bcfdd9a74df24fe8e0ca13ee13be9a0c