Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da8aa056a6809c46…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

71.0 KB
MD5: f1bf0b72b028733a9400dd5e549e5e60 SHA-1: fb50093935286dc0686f0dd46806a0c834bb822c SHA-256: da8aa056a6809c46505002d26bcc6c110963989eea2970361fb84f97032df5ad
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with specific CLSIDs indicative of the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The \objupdate directive forces the activation of this embedded object, triggering the exploit. This technique is commonly used to achieve arbitrary code execution, typically to download and run a second-stage payload. No specific family could be identified from the available heuristics.

Heuristics 3

  • 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
  • \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_off00001fca.bin
2cbb38e46223947d0c957718bf94d8544566e2a916e1a7a0d13a80ba57fa6153
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1FCA 3744 bytes