Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f6006e8f913f56…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

15.2 KB
MD5: e90198328c29398f8cf8188f9f6cd012 SHA-1: 746c25e52c8476e12388bdab440b89de9ab8533e SHA-256: c4f6006e8f913f56a76a9e6bd453c1725950705469e4b19f76c0b7f63cbe63a1
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE object data and specifically targets the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The presence of ".objupdate" directives indicates that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically upon opening the document. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload, although no specific payload details or URLs were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 4

  • 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 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001990.bin
19a28bf459da76328236b65f7039335891643e5a6df3190887a11c84fecaabd2
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1990 4174 bytes