MALICIOUS
120
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File
The sample is an RTF document containing OLE object data and specifically targets the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` and `RTF_OBJUPDATE` heuristics indicates an attempt to exploit this known vulnerability. The `RTF_OBJDATA` heuristic further confirms the embedding of OLE objects, which is a common delivery mechanism for exploits. The attack likely aims to achieve code execution to download and run a secondary payload.
Heuristics 3
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Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF 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.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off00001909.binef00bc90415da79ebb7848d7f212d633f8a46c033c8ff718430f7a903a5b4119 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x1909 | 1693 bytes |
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