Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb13c0d43ff7d0c2…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

10.2 KB First seen: 2022-04-14
MD5: 69bf6fea393c61497dfca62c39c8c065 SHA-1: 4c4da2bea7ca06fafe4e39a33827ec3230ef9980 SHA-256: eb13c0d43ff7d0c2d7a4a80a50868f58288e5e058cbe4225ab7a0fcd8fdd9999
121 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is an RTF document that contains embedded OLE objects, specifically triggering critical heuristics for Equation Editor exploitation and object updates. This indicates a likely exploit targeting the Equation Editor component to achieve code execution. The presence of ".bin [rtf-objdata-decoded] 2244 bytes" suggests that the exploit likely embeds or downloads a secondary payload. The truncated nature of the DOC BODY prevents further analysis of specific lures or content.

Heuristics 3

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000015c2.bin
2a3b522f717f06413e661d2796b7238087a03f12aad00cf92b7ce5494b15af98
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x15C2 2244 bytes