Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bda8df85375330b6…

MALICIOUS

RTF

226.1 KB First seen: 2024-12-04
MD5: d6a2aa124bb43a0f77c2ee4dab24a2ab SHA-1: 451c9add3d28cb79b5f381608809e32667359b64 SHA-256: bda8df85375330b6422849dde706dc16ff63a7af200e2c7575593990656a7761
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The presence of `Ole10Native` stream and the `RTF_OBJDATA` heuristic strongly indicate this exploit. The embedded object is likely designed to download and execute a secondary payload, although the specific details of the payload are not available in the provided evidence.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001bbe.bin
9daf98a87c65d6af8bf3e8e550184ab0ac509ced859fd48dfe826f4660f4eb9d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1BBE 3660 bytes