RTF / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · 923b8ccd402b1b98

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.87 MB

MD5: 0567693e2dfbcabed39cd39519fc835e SHA-1: a8a0f85e194426002b2d67c4aa231103e6dcbefb SHA-256: 923b8ccd402b1b989017eb51df9e2df87a0ebffd87991db503c4befbd21e39a1

222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This vulnerability is known to be used for delivering second-stage payloads. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the exploitation of this vulnerability, leading to the extraction of a PE file.

Heuristics 6

Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED

RTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR

RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
\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.
Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX

RTF contains ~1948KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`objdata_00_off00000041.bin` `a19a17d24f64aca17bc32d4e41e282d1f467d517a14051a814efd75a19ddecbf`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x41	975396 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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