MALICIOUS
160
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model
T1204.002 Malicious File
The sample is an RTF document that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability, indicated by the RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR, RTF_OBJAUTLINK, RTF_OBJUPDATE, and RTF_OBJDATA heuristic firings. This exploit likely embeds and activates an OLE object to execute a secondary payload, leading to further system compromise. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions.
Heuristics 4
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Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
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Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINKRTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off00001f03.bin2d7c0dbb4220db66756f89f849e17ff3448a2acb78db1b27d590988d95405a20 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x1F03 | 2101 bytes |
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