Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e131fcbca3ad14d3…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

8.2 KB
MD5: 56ba8cdb5481e7a313df8cd36d9a5c44 SHA-1: 5f8f6f6e6bf06ed87ff69cb5ec837f46a036aadf SHA-256: e131fcbca3ad14d3ed58135073b6d011fad8bb2c8a709a2fbcd34858ab5cdc80
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object with a CLSID indicative of the Equation Editor. The presence of \objdata and \objupdate directives strongly suggests that the embedded object is designed to be automatically activated upon opening the document, leading to the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Equation Editor to achieve arbitrary code execution. No document body or script content was available for further analysis.

Heuristics 5

  • Ole10Native stream in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_OLE10NATIVE_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an Ole10Native stream. This is a strong payload-container signal and is related to Word/OLE exploit delivery, but it is not specific enough on its own to assign a CVE.
  • 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
  • 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_off00000041.bin
2024f9f958ca44755dcf5fda8ca088227894b9a3d6139955214c90e4937100b9
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x41 4159 bytes