Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddd6c7aff38488e6…

MALICIOUS

RTF

503.8 KB First seen: 2020-02-04
MD5: e8b9bb66efb9abebc2c242edf05587bb SHA-1: 5bf2a0a8c6646eaabc0a975f6f028fddbec623f7 SHA-256: ddd6c7aff38488e65e3720cfe1e622ddc4c87c9cc37b181df6904adfd5ee7067
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains embedded OLE object data and triggers an automatic OLE activation. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882, related to Microsoft Equation Editor, which is known to be exploited for client execution. This suggests the file is a malicious document likely delivered via spearphishing, intended to exploit this vulnerability.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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_off000013b6.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x13B6 4136 bytes
SHA-256: b2b2d520ade31279badd4aa62c28e2cc43eb36b167c5a0ec228911d211d946c8