Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5774d5806b980a3…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

59.7 KB
MD5: 6da38ab7fc60b8fb8a239275b344c7ba SHA-1: eb8ebaa21d9be474aa75b7cf0803a336a076629d SHA-256: e5774d5806b980a39e1a32ceaeacd606a7be35956709292cf4aa152988322f29
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that leverages the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). The presence of RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR and CVE_2017_11882_ACTIVATION_RELATED heuristics strongly indicates exploitation of this known Microsoft Office vulnerability. The extasciitilde{}objupdate directive forces the OLE object to activate, leading to arbitrary code execution.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor activation — CVE-2017-11882 related high CVE related CVE_2017_11882_ACTIVATION_RELATED
    RTF decodes to an Equation.3 ProgID and requests OLE activation with \objemb plus \objupdate. This reaches the legacy Equation Editor attack surface used by CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802 documents, but the malformed MTEF/native payload needed for stronger attribution was not recovered.
  • Split hex Equation Editor ProgID + OLE object critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF 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.
  • \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 2 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000007f4.bin
c5b6025a8999c4da9cdd20ed275b3f0f5848ea790cb0c27dc3048f3040e28ece		 rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7F4 1954 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.