Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c9d3701bb36c5fc…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

133.0 KB
MD5: 85585f5162a053f177019cec24e86375 SHA-1: 720f60ada0426fe82aabaa4c3f8db95c2e09b07a SHA-256: 9c9d3701bb36c5fc3498ca7d57d553ee644ddd6daa8e551b80b2d109bdd08d35
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1200 Hardware Add-in T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object, specifically triggering heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This indicates the document is designed to exploit this known flaw. The embedded object, objdata_00_off00001d3f.bin, is likely the payload delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the critical heuristics strongly suggest exploitation of CVE-2017-11882.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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_off00001d3f.bin
f8ba2c02cd8eee19370578d4af51983092298741cc6c722ff451b4b8334e08ea
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1D3F 64091 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.93, consistent with packed or encrypted content.