Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b874488cf17ed0…

MALICIOUS

RTF

114.2 KB First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 75e23e538d7d2c69d3c5e687df742f0b SHA-1: 9ecb51c9c33331b28060566007d9dbf60cc98ee4 SHA-256: a6b874488cf17ed0e6bc5482e1b407a30164c2e5e1bbb783c2afad1a2cceca8c
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 the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary 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_off00000080.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x80 3627 bytes
SHA-256: 5d2fede66a017b7e77d76299a823e2b47f173ae66ea06cc9778b34ad018bbb50