Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94164a6b802d675b…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

381.9 KB
MD5: 781028087ce3daedef7a39cb5f06ea56 SHA-1: 9b1d38c22d8fd332490fc11e18fda4e6b5f5c23a SHA-256: 94164a6b802d675bf8b804e5a6b18f532b47f22fdc6d59dc5f9760626d1a8c64
129 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics for the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This indicates the document is designed to exploit this known flaw for code execution. The presence of OLE object data suggests it's likely a downloader for a second-stage payload, although no specific URLs or scripts were extracted to confirm this. The confidence is high due to the clear exploitation vector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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_off00001bcc.bin
1f3b6bd697b371ad90bff91cc94895d3deae2f58da26f005876862d3fbd544d0
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1BCC 64064 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.93, consistent with packed or encrypted content.