Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d42a447bbb950edd…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

249.9 KB
MD5: 20d216d57ecd892d6eda83a12bd6bff2 SHA-1: 23f5f041c53a4710023c5acd15203a29b4016a8a SHA-256: d42a447bbb950edd9ea6998dedad10a4ecfb082be638620ec371a84f57eba761
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with a suspicious ProgID, indicating an attempt to exploit the Equation Editor vulnerability. The \objupdate directive suggests that the OLE object is automatically activated upon opening the document, leading to the execution of malicious code. No specific malware family could be identified, and no external IOCs were extracted.

Heuristics 4

  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
  • \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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000042.bin
7b8d95252d061f7a111966fe98a12a6b3182ed79ed159c5ca509f59033ce3d15
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x42 127792 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.