RTF malware analysis — malicious · a8cae9b01dbd98f2

MALICIOUS

RTF

1.29 MB First seen: 2023-05-18

MD5: e8e697be5b0ac29122d73a081d54ae83 SHA-1: 82844046ab7035f1756642aef74ce6846766b8ce SHA-256: a8cae9b01dbd98f21499651af77172b0ef620d3438b2ab1ce19323d0f64b8343

262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The RTF file contains an OLE object that leverages the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Equation Editor. This vulnerability is used to decode and execute a Portable Executable (PE) payload, indicated by the presence of a PE file within the OLE object data. The high entropy and size of the decoded object suggest it is a packed or obfuscated malicious binary.

Heuristics 7

Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED

RTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
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.
Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK

RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
\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.
Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX

RTF contains ~1351KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`objdata_00_off00000074.bin` `367b275718914d0f92bbf60fefcbbb8280c3e7b1ffb742f87b85c7f01e51d608`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x74	675782 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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