Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1bd5cd399417ea4…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

94.6 KB
MD5: 3108d633e45deb59d86d40154e99652f SHA-1: a20745985cf289e5422c36774dd95363ca2db311 SHA-256: b1bd5cd399417ea41205a460eef1fa9f640a9e4c3169c474ff118e93e8a93622
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers the Equation Editor vulnerability. The ".objupdate" directive indicates that the embedded object is intended to be activated automatically. This strongly suggests exploitation of the Equation Editor component to achieve arbitrary code execution, likely for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000010ef.bin
7bfa04e5b9b45ba783356674f7bb932d1f96585253f0fcd78f5d3d5d354fe124
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x10EF 4180 bytes