MALICIOUS
200
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor component. Critical heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2017-8759, a vulnerability associated with MSXML SAX OLE activation. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening, likely as a downloader or initial access vector.
Heuristics 6
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CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
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Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOREquation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMBRTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off00146023.bin5c7967cb0feb2e61878540f587fecd8d84321cb223a49684fd406ae1763b4538 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x146023 | 3732 bytes |
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