Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5c8f8cf7f84bf0b…

MALICIOUS

RTF

225.0 KB Authoring application: Riched20 6.3.9600 First seen: 2020-02-04
MD5: 58f94614a20d3182903a5544ea452596 SHA-1: baf3d6c9a8a7b36643a37af5100b82a5d5f83091 SHA-256: d5c8f8cf7f84bf0b45af2d33379bd4ef8e978fe10e152f814c8c64a26c79e61a
522 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The RTF file contains multiple indicators of malicious activity, most critically the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 through an embedded Equation Editor object. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, and ClamAV detections confirm the presence of a trojan. The embedded URL is likely related to the payload delivery or C2 infrastructure.

Heuristics 12

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical CVE likely RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • Composite Moniker in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_COMPOSITE_MONIKER_RELATED
    RTF contains Composite Moniker CLSID in OLE object context, but no nearby scriptlet/SCT payload was confirmed. Treat as related moniker attack-surface evidence rather than proof of CVE-2017-8570 exploitation.
  • ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Autoit-7057866-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Trojan.Autoit-7057866-1
  • PE header (with DOS stub) in hex data critical RTF_MZ_HEX
    Hex-encoded PE (MZ + DOS stub) found inside RTF — likely an embedded executable payload
  • \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.
  • Package object class high RTF_OBJCLASS_PACKAGE
    OLE Package object — can wrap arbitrary files
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.ibsensoftware.com/ In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000ef.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xEF 106718 bytes
SHA-256: 92fd8bf68eb44607fdefce63ce9c5e0017b0000eea7ce9b7a15c96c68f42b2eb
Detection
ClamAV: Win.Trojan.Autoit-7057866-1
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis found candidate code region(s). Indicators: SC_PEB_ACCESS, NOP sled, SC_STR_GETPROCADDRESS Static shellcode analysis recovered API/import strings: LoadLibraryW, GetProcAddress
objdata_01_off000342fa.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x342FA 3980 bytes
SHA-256: 4a8baccda4495e5ac1546e6650626ee8d95d8ae8f60b9be7d84e806d21dbff28
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd.exe /c%tmp%\build.exe &��D$,f-Q���%
objdata_02_off00036540.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x36540 3546 bytes
SHA-256: 7968b652e1180b1713924d760c63d7789d2171eac8e1f0b76c51475c4624f6d4
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): cmd.exe /c%tmp%\build.exe A C