Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4a519e8e310b794…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

310.2 KB
MD5: 5d64348d6cb536a5ed4784db3cd87a7d SHA-1: 64451f6414b85cb537bc51c99dae63283ce1302f SHA-256: b4a519e8e310b794f6088d1d78a7d138cd9e293a4bb55ebc13e82ee2b0b1fa6e
129 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is an RTF document containing OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics for the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The ".bin" file extracted via objdata is highly suspicious and likely contains the exploit code. The presence of the Equation Editor CLSID and the ".bin" artifact strongly suggests this document is designed to exploit this known vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution, likely for a secondary payload download.

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
  • 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_off0000131a.bin
413fa22445e27c4689dc5d828612d3c04d1fdbe095f9db07fc4f77598b9e08f9
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x131A 104001 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.96, consistent with packed or encrypted content.