Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9530584a0038c5d8…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

312.0 KB
MD5: 0e504a2ab51368cd4b6afdfe52508c99 SHA-1: bb03dca0fa44bd996edd9620bc34971fb73db583 SHA-256: 9530584a0038c5d85be0244d041ae05d49b3c010e773f3086fe27879cf6362d6
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability. This vulnerability is known to be used for downloading and executing second-stage payloads. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the exploitation of the Equation Editor and the presence of a PE file within the OLE object data. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off0000174e.bin' is the decoded payload.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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_off0000174e.bin
dc47baaefa2814d742457db4baa02c4b06c8f8214b62997bb4825bfc28db33ae
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x174E 156576 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.