Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92595203aa79e4a3…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

414.3 KB
MD5: 71ef3e26c4a04083c0a2bd90a348d2d9 SHA-1: 636db8de0aa0fd2cdbc8e3fa7db4e498b43c67bf SHA-256: 92595203aa79e4a393889ca4e35515bcd98954321b18a85b76f658446ab13428
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious Code

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-1997-2448). The ".bin" file extracted from the objdata section likely contains the second-stage payload. The heuristics strongly indicate exploitation of the Equation Editor, a common vector for initial access.

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
  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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_off00001f3e.bin
e29da5adc1d1293bd10b5aca3e28b7bdf0bf25687103bf6afdd9318a90d55e14
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1F3E 103510 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.96, consistent with packed or encrypted content.