Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4acb36fb68cfcaf…

MALICIOUS

RTF

56.0 KB First seen: 2023-08-24
MD5: 89c1a747633c6879f7e633457d14b78a SHA-1: 7c78265b0650dca3b734749b990d3d220ef1f6ff SHA-256: e4acb36fb68cfcaf788ee4ffb0573403cec1d9ef97cd88c122d06b1e5472e176
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.005 Visual Basic

The sample is an RTF document that contains an embedded OLE object, triggering heuristics for CVE-2017-11882 exploitation. The document body contains a lure instructing the user to 'Enable editing', which is a common tactic to bypass security measures. The exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 is a critical finding, indicating the file attempts to execute arbitrary code.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • \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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00002822.bin
4361d37502a60f61a17634f43bd9ac28c6df730f20a7d7d77e81dd4388cd592d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x2822 3643 bytes