MALICIOUS
200
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
The critical heuristic firings for RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR and CVE_2017_8759 strongly indicate exploitation of the Equation Editor vulnerability. The presence of OLE object data and an embedded OLE object further supports this. The embedded URL is likely benign but is included as an IOC.
Heuristics 6
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CVE-2017-8759 — MSXML SAX OLE activation critical CVE likely CVE_2017_8759RTF contains a hex-encoded OLE1 object for Msxml2.SAXXMLReader.6.0 followed by an embedded OLE compound document, and the document requests OLE activation. This matches the RTF staging shape used for CVE-2017-8759 SOAP/WSDL parser code injection.
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Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOREquation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMBRTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.URL http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
objdata_00_off0009489e.bin3982b5e0ca807e32348953d49c6ed7285cb15b3ac3ea121336f9d87170fe2363 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x9489E | 3732 bytes |
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