Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45f3ece45ad0704…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

108.2 KB
MD5: dc60bf78adb8283d88b19d7f6aa3c8f0 SHA-1: fecc405e1414e591ae879170fe5d14299a304a59 SHA-256: a45f3ece45ad0704d53d3b622dc0cca2b5979a0e7d3dc16d81074204b776a6ae
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that decodes to a PE file, indicating a likely exploit targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of \objdata and \objupdate heuristics further supports the exploitation of OLE object data for payload delivery. The decoded artifact is a suspicious PE file, suggesting the primary goal is to execute arbitrary code.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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_off00000056.bin
2c98a005769ab0f8ab2dd39741b38e334fe56d672f7182354cc04976927e39f1
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x56 55258 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.