Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f33c3635ba0c704…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

434.5 KB First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 725c046a9a1bd2456115102985d98dd4 SHA-1: dce11d03bb6838c7761865f5149251d01df65946 SHA-256: 9f33c3635ba0c704775ea7c0388955e5649ab913987d990e05f121b6c1681b7c
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering heuristics related to Equation Editor vulnerabilities and OLE object activation. This strongly suggests an exploit targeting the Equation Editor component to achieve arbitrary code execution. The presence of an extracted artifact, objdata_00_off0000167b.bin, is noted as a suspicious component.

Heuristics 5

  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • 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 2 \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_off0000167b.bin
52d44638794320bb362f2d4714e1ae8d10e5aad1511d9f2960d891c41ebd3dc7
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x167B 175699 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.