Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee7792e03a3a5f26…

MALICIOUS

RTF

7.1 KB First seen: 2018-06-14
MD5: ec88365cc87054bfcd117b9c94f0a091 SHA-1: e1094eabea0251e5ed0aa055e6124c28433e6489 SHA-256: ee7792e03a3a5f26cf44215d26c84afafe4739447cef0db433446e4b517f29a6
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and specifically triggers heuristics related to the Equation Editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882). This exploit is known to allow for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The ClamAV detection further confirms the presence of this specific 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
  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Rtf.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6584355-1
  • \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_off0000003c.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3C 3623 bytes
SHA-256: 65db19189cafe2140943a93f81e570b272d4f528b4bae11241cd62b973790bdc