Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a15f13b5162f75a…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

457.3 KB
MD5: f6103a868ee98af6d135b4b5c37b1bc6 SHA-1: c72ceeb7a8bc484a7a292fb74ec2694f99c98ef5 SHA-256: 9a15f13b5162f75a9959077a6fb616b8b97748cf69c878aa113d2d2a50a83b29
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability. The `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` heuristic indicates a decoded Equation Editor payload, and `RTF_OBJUPDATE` suggests that the object is activated to trigger the exploit. The `RTF_OBJDATA` heuristic confirms the presence of embedded OLE object data. This combination strongly suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability to download and execute a secondary 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_off000008a4.bin
c0e4fd0a535b75a903d57b1327c6b963979334b57e97751539f299f2ab7fe9a5
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x8A4 232955 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.