Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0899c51ef6ae509…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.2 KB First seen: 2018-10-19
MD5: 61aed3830fba684785316810a6341b45 SHA-1: aea27baa20ccd897043382b1a266b202ae1abae1 SHA-256: e0899c51ef6ae509280695fc46120a18dd648c380b0e5648dfe97003beacf45d
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 the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability within the Equation Editor component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The presence of the ".bin" embedded artifact further supports the exploitation of this vulnerability.

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 3638 bytes
SHA-256: bb761caca61a1bb7bb2cae47a5ad6bc55492e6064bfa529e70ac8fc8d9c68dc9