Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a32feb2c99090b33…

MALICIOUS

RTF

276.1 KB First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 60c9821d9ee8c0f103d172aee75e26c0 SHA-1: a30840cd65d089465429800ba2094b97701cc19f SHA-256: a32feb2c99090b33b83eaa61487289150a8a183b92e74e8ea554c92eb0997b94
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data, specifically triggering the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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_off00000047.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x47 3627 bytes
SHA-256: 5d2fede66a017b7e77d76299a823e2b47f173ae66ea06cc9778b34ad018bbb50