Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7c423d21d7730d9…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

312.5 KB
MD5: 0630b55e18eadd1402f33c193730f833 SHA-1: a484fd4f047a8d5b2fe1c06de290a54373b505aa SHA-256: a7c423d21d7730d997bf9a17b6c5cbf92bd7b84e2c03a60db3b659e18d461a3c
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability. This exploit is designed to decode and execute a Portable Executable (PE) file, indicated by the 'RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' heuristic firings. The decoded artifact, 'objdata_00_off0000175c.bin', is the likely 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_off0000175c.bin
f37852f274382137d8e1113af0820a262bba6803827de576a39be09dfffde622
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x175C 156906 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.