Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba3d19fdb5b0ad75…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

673.4 KB
MD5: f052854caba7b88a51f58ff9944c17da SHA-1: fb811e5d7a93b61c42be3995fb1749fc7671736b SHA-256: ba3d19fdb5b0ad759b64b9871bc02d6bbd3cd8e01ce21d489f3fff9f2fab7ea9
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with a split Equation Editor ProgID, indicating exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The ".objupdate" directive forces the OLE object to activate, leading to arbitrary code execution. The extracted artifact suggests a potential second-stage payload, but its nature is not further detailed by the static analysis.

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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_off0000005e.bin
26c54380f91f8d4144fc341e4dae2ca5b50582b7d5073812c496b9b6efe7ee09
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5E 344661 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.