Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1605ad4d914f922…

MALICIOUS

RTF

116.2 KB First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c91da4ea595b95f73baec7fa01b14983 SHA-1: 6c4ece6a1341e96531cebf3d48e289ddddbb388f SHA-256: a1605ad4d914f922d365fb5c4a2efbdbe637276863418564a04939e92003af98
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that triggers the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a likely exploit attempt to deliver a malicious payload.

Heuristics 3

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000005b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5B 3627 bytes
SHA-256: 5d2fede66a017b7e77d76299a823e2b47f173ae66ea06cc9778b34ad018bbb50