RTF malware analysis — malicious · abe4c7673340ebd1

MALICIOUS

RTF

3.03 MB

MD5: 5862c49c2ba6a9de564615e94cf200ac SHA-1: 674a64b89b33549df662c977d3f1e0603d02a28b SHA-256: abe4c7673340ebd1d6f87028fb2d887ba0aa16eb7a00cab724457a3d600ed707

222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF file contains an OLE object specifically identified as related to CVE-2017-11882, indicating exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of a large, high-entropy embedded object further suggests a hidden payload. No document body text was available for analysis, but the heuristics strongly point to a classic exploit delivery mechanism.

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.
Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR

RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
\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 ~3178KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA

RTF contains 2 \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_off000000d3.bin` `2442d293f68e935cfbb46087f5ea7afd1e90658fe1625077b3ae6fb9ebf28ccc`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0xD3	1589548 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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