Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b58bce14287fa713…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

603.6 KB
MD5: c4275c3deccf855754ed3435e5c5d2c2 SHA-1: 86e48771534aacbf7b51ce2f9cdce9cd13b688f2 SHA-256: b58bce14287fa713a8507da2444f8332e38bc33e8b87cb03e56186f09e5c0c38
129 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR). The ".objupdate" heuristic indicates that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically, likely to execute a malicious payload. The presence of an extracted OLE object further supports this. The specific payload and its ultimate goal are not discernible from the provided static analysis, hence the family is unknown.

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_off0000056f.bin
37607735061de6138dbc982058f139a3e4971cb1d2b7b846b7cc06f250f44fa2
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x56F 246338 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.