Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7ff9f25d0b95537…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

944.7 KB
MD5: 7a0f445e3fef05c524e392102f0776f7 SHA-1: c3ed350b7dce5a9ce8c8c7ac06ecd90c5fd81977 SHA-256: e7ff9f25d0b955372854bf6cada8477006254a0f0d20b6c110443dd05b6e50cb
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with decoded Equation Editor payload, indicating exploitation of a known vulnerability. The ".objupdate" heuristic suggests that the OLE object is designed to activate automatically, leading to the execution of the embedded malicious code. No specific malware family could be identified, but the attack pattern is consistent with exploit-laced documents.

Heuristics 4

  • Decoded Equation Editor payload + PE critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    RTF decodes to an Equation Editor ProgID adjacent to OLE activation and the same decoded object stream contains embedded PE bytes. This matches the Equation Editor exploit surface used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 documents, while requiring payload evidence to avoid flagging benign Equation references.
  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000043.bin
01d8e829c966931696dacac0f99948b1e6720d7eb234c19570e4f32410a8e8a8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x43 483598 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.