Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab654181294e5a8d…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

127.7 KB
MD5: d4755737d07b9af86e719be91fdacc4b SHA-1: 9d58ea3df1633a0aa5886e53f10682eecb1b5525 SHA-256: ab654181294e5a8dcccd8fc46c618759c02a67419681528ec34582a8d0114c0e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that exploits the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability is known to be used for delivering second-stage malware. The decoded object has high entropy and appears to be a PE file, indicating it's the malicious payload. No document body text was available for further context, but the exploit itself is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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_off00001eaa.bin
155bfbd6e1cc004d438144b6db99b40ef10a09248855b7389526adcc6cb72390
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1EAA 61347 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.