MALICIOUS
222
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204.002 Malicious File
The sample is an RTF document that leverages the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability through a malicious Equation Editor OLE object. This exploit is known to download and execute a secondary payload. The high entropy of the embedded object further suggests it is an executable payload. No specific family could be identified, but the delivery mechanism is clear.
Heuristics 6
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Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE_2017_11882_RELATEDRTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact attribution was not recovered.
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Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITORRTF embeds the Equation.3 ProgID as hex bytes near OLE object activation and splits the byte stream with whitespace or an ignorable RTF group. This is an Equation Editor OLE activation surface commonly used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploit documents.
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Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINKRTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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objdata_00_off000014e3.bin596c98ae7525ae1d4d2ca5f2405821d5294fa1a2470d4d007061e7a898b402bc |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x14E3 | 233301 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
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