Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adf5de107a394c39…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.1 KB First seen: 2018-06-19
MD5: 011ba3ffd0f013289f08368920a3a61a SHA-1: 694341ce58f5be16e53d1d7fe80cdc194d26b3da SHA-256: adf5de107a394c39b69109657ae366c1d3ab770722f91a818ef72c957e376ac4
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The presence of ".objupdate" and the specific CLSID for Equation Editor strongly indicate an exploit attempt. This technique is commonly used to deliver malicious payloads via spearphishing attachments.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000003c.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3C 3626 bytes
SHA-256: cc6a6050332d6159e9d2e7660b7757901591af18f38c5d3d91d3c69a260793a5