Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e053b03e145dcf15…

MALICIOUS

RTF

9.2 KB First seen: 2018-10-26
MD5: 548065a876f3965e7a42856e29891204 SHA-1: a465ee02bf8fc491513f3799f387fd163807b16e SHA-256: e053b03e145dcf15c1e09f96376ad04d30ad9334a823bcca23def5144e50b866
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics related to Equation Editor and CVE-2017-11882. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor to achieve code execution. The presence of the exploit suggests it was likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • \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_off0000003b.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3B 4658 bytes
SHA-256: d86823283f720040c2b8501788eea4c91807d9bf2f87f2931ee0c47642a20552