Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5dbcc7edeaa326…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

1004.5 KB
MD5: c1cbd9674d9bc10e8af17443ad75977a SHA-1: 88a8fd7e22baba95cbfb498c450faec697ece03c SHA-256: ee5dbcc7edeaa3262462b22091403b94fdb1565e5cf656794dd55a527223778f
222 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 with a ProgID indicative of Equation Editor, triggering critical heuristics for CVE-2017-11882. The presence of a large, high-entropy OLE1 native payload strongly suggests it decodes to a second-stage executable. The objupdate directive further indicates an attempt to automatically activate the embedded object, likely leading to the execution of the embedded payload.

Heuristics 6

  • Equation Editor OLE1 native payload — CVE-2017-11882 related critical CVE related CVE_2017_11882_RELATED
    RTF decodes to an OLE1 Equation.3 embedded object whose native data is large and payload-like, and \objupdate requests automatic activation. This is the delivery shape used by Equation Editor RCE documents such as CVE-2017-11882/CVE-2018-0802, but the malformed MTEF record needed for exact 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.
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~1028KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 2 \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_off000000bb.bin
66ee96e294d24e23f42a6bdba6cefef610802e602c63e090c05374ee0c69a020
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xBB 514089 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.