Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdb711a1eff42770…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

8.8 KB
MD5: 066f11583cd181417fb53e6bb9d3b041 SHA-1: c162769c0482c0306d31886661220fbe771f373b SHA-256: bdb711a1eff42770dd955410c862e6d97474badd7b866631a69d8e23f78dfbc6
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.002 Component Object Model Hijacking

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability via an Equation Editor font record overflow. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. No further IOCs were extracted, but the exploit itself is a high-confidence indicator of malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000a8.bin
a207f64d0fed0e932f7f8e133abe65237a42880329a859287a0fe70e1f1676f6
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA8 4157 bytes