Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a213e5164ff2f1b2…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

321.1 KB
MD5: fe423cf6032d1770dc2ec1e67264715e SHA-1: 61697441e65894349559f572b960d4c4cd81ce06 SHA-256: a213e5164ff2f1b2f93a2faa3aef510b94ffbb87a0f57d4706e3977a5378adcd
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This is a known method for exploiting systems to execute arbitrary code. The heuristic firings strongly indicate this exploit is present and active. No document body text was available for analysis, but the exploit itself is sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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_off00001b67.bin
2322230f6387c8d5987a04deec634f6c7d42f65d4ccac1a30323dead167915d4
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1B67 160843 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.