Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8f12174c0133f91…

MALICIOUS

RTF

25.9 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2018-03-04
MD5: 5f271a4ca285d7ce80b12bd93e26bc92 SHA-1: 8493c1c5a520daa21616529c0c393c7b37c4af39 SHA-256: b8f12174c0133f9178309329b23de790efc422a7144d7af2de98930e970f4d94
360 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability via the Equation Editor. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection of Js.Trojan.Downloader further supports the malicious intent.

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • 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.
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000ef.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xEF 4821 bytes
SHA-256: c4320d894777f4ac44ca9d9f316070f4bbe92ec933d0afc15836d1f327f2ea54
objdata_01_off000026e8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x26E8 3980 bytes
SHA-256: 5e7a24d54992f34d8f7c2e620abf0a83c46e3e848bfe4850bb72d02a4d6ab767
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd.exe /c%tmp%\zino.exe &��D$,f-Q���%
objdata_02_off0000492e.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x492E 3546 bytes
SHA-256: e9eb46e6338ad9c506d42541cda5491be9f474773b28e32d2bd13e3ce60eb6bf
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd.exe /c%tmp%\zino.exe A C