RTF malware analysis — malicious · bc0ee5d816b2e690

MALICIOUS

RTF

2.36 MB First seen: 2021-07-07

MD5: 8e85447ae8724efd6ca89f8fe31337d9 SHA-1: bb364763e25c8396bbf67ae6ade747a73e2939c5 SHA-256: bc0ee5d816b2e69044f9c7ed77ee7dfa942eb81f6c2061358e5412096efaae36

222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains an OLE object related to CVE-2017-11882, indicating exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability for client execution. The large amount of hex-encoded data within the OLE object likely hides a second-stage payload. The file's presence as an attachment is inferred from the common delivery method for such exploits.

Heuristics 6

Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical CVE likely 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.
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.
\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.
Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX

RTF contains ~2474KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`objdata_00_off0000006d.bin`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x6D	1237483 bytes
SHA-256: `042f4461a86a56126638c7630358700b8d93799efa4722eb3229a32ae5bcc870`
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact entropy is 7.99, consistent with packed or encrypted content.

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