Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6d3f9dc2815e9f7…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

28.0 KB First seen: 2023-06-14
MD5: 418aefdb083ce19b972f4573f3ed98ff SHA-1: bd9dde0f672a66ac0da55b00106c713aefe693f1 SHA-256: e6d3f9dc2815e9f7604382a83ffe91cb49a32b2c7866ce9a321a1fb4c35c49e9
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates that the sample is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in the Equation Editor. The presence of OLE object data and an embedded OLE object further supports this. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, although the specific nature of that payload cannot be determined from the provided evidence.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 likely critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    RTF decodes to an activated Microsoft Equation 3.0 OLE storage whose payload is a high-entropy Ole10Native stream rather than normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is a weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape consistent with CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802.
  • 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.
  • \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
  • 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_off00001d56.bin
b5939d033db948db1b06a36f34f0d1bb69c16ecc306898e1dba747e91c0f74b2
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1D56 4182 bytes