RTF / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · c3b408db03d13b4c

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.43 MB First seen: 2023-02-15

MD5: c697c37aa07c384a81f53c9ac7184152 SHA-1: a115bb1f53e97a20ba5656564dcf6e06b5872822 SHA-256: c3b408db03d13b4c4e9b756fb3e7e80a55bb9c619a9b2d466ebd1a86ca6b4f7d

242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an RTF document containing a malicious OLE object that exploits the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This vulnerability is used to decode and execute a PE payload, likely a secondary stage downloader or implant. The presence of excessive hex data and a high-entropy embedded object further supports the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 7

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.
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.
Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX

RTF contains ~1498KB 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
Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB

RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
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_off00000078.bin` `7e82a0404869fc05029dec52fb79e7f54ca33d6cbee744582a43e210d535bf2c`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x78	749671 bytes
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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