Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc408f72c8be09e9…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

129.7 KB
MD5: e5fd13ad01c61378d592ceecd69b753a SHA-1: a454d77ea2fb0335be8778411f6ab516d7cde773 SHA-256: bc408f72c8be09e949ccc77140d5a7994429fb1a2c61a709e13905e331e070ae
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data, specifically a decoded Equation Editor payload. This indicates an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor component to achieve arbitrary code execution. The presence of a PE file within the decoded object further supports this. The extracted SHA256 hash is the primary IOC.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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
fb08cb0be544d4c8b0b9c18ad9c47859c3394520066a9416b50e0a40ae9f4fc8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5E 66262 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.