Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92341a9b165ad71a…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

299.4 KB
MD5: e223d33ab26991791729d178cff8b370 SHA-1: bfd23e36d173fc3c0b9115a925cace43daee480a SHA-256: 92341a9b165ad71a414bcb471931ee59f98eceb2681d9ce6655b118073f87a24
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The presence of \objdata and \objupdate directives strongly indicates an attempt to exploit this vulnerability for code execution. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file, identifying it as a known exploit. No specific malware family could be identified, but the attack pattern is clear.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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_off00000044.bin
d7ca09c07effdeddf0c653fd6ebad27444d82813e8e8b0963a9cb19599be3f59
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x44 153142 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.