RTF / .DOC malware analysis — malicious · c8498a4cc14c406e

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1.02 MB First seen: 2023-09-01

MD5: d659e6e8589b5a7f91fa7b0f7c291b61 SHA-1: eb1a02c435b6450f64595a1737c6558c6ad0affc SHA-256: c8498a4cc14c406e6c74881a35a2452394585bd24abda5bdbe13fff811969362

222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains OLE object data, specifically a decoded Equation Editor payload. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882, is being exploited to embed and execute a Portable Executable (PE) file. The large amount of hex-encoded data within the OLE object further suggests the presence of a hidden payload.

Heuristics 6

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 ~1069KB 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
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_off00000084.bin` `617a8658d90139a383e41389f888ba90ff7b2384f1894de03f9ae921eb85e5f4`	rtf-objdata-decoded	RTF \objdata at offset 0x84	534973 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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