Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a95fd8b2c88d0d…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

793.2 KB
MD5: 1806ee505be411f6beef2ebcad34e0b0 SHA-1: 5f3cebc64aac11a11789947320b6e6820566738b SHA-256: a6a95fd8b2c88d0d9b11d6d93a813e490f5940b551fdd9e34bf157c3e1def872
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with data indicative of an Equation Editor exploit. The heuristic firings strongly suggest that the file leverages CVE-2017-11882 or a similar vulnerability to execute a secondary payload. The extracted artifact 'objdata_00_off00000042.bin' is likely the decoded exploit payload.

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_off00000042.bin
d6683a9a8cc690f5d623b78819da6731e7091b8e5563e6b51f84825550e56491
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x42 405973 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.