Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e665c583687ab8df…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.2 KB First seen: 2019-08-04
MD5: a32d8ff4aa8fab7ea1b2dc857eae6e08 SHA-1: f60cbb87321da3f6112e933d87dfeed2b168243f SHA-256: e665c583687ab8df1d5201a0bad7dfd5f9cfcc26fd9d6f11bf522718857c048c
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and is specifically flagged for exploiting the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The ClamAV detection further confirms the presence of this known exploit.

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
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • 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_off0000003f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3F 4154 bytes
SHA-256: cac9cef56cd4c4442cd3000fcbc37bae8c735ab499a9000c6f2dd03a0a54742f