Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2c3f7a700072b93…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

963.3 KB
MD5: 71302ed111a77e0a4ea1b7e88443771c SHA-1: 035707574afb4e7176b16e23cfc56184c8cf670e SHA-256: b2c3f7a700072b93747169f7d0b90b39d44c1089f64ede59a8db55eab4fdfd69
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object specifically identified as related to CVE-2017-11882, a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. The presence of \objupdate indicates an attempt to force OLE activation, which would trigger the exploit. The high entropy of the decoded OLE object suggests it contains packed or encrypted shellcode, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000cb.bin
d7f45dda115bdcb083c82632eed017e4e36576ac01a040c88ceb15c9cdf84120
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xCB 492865 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.