Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f19434110e121354…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

606.2 KB
MD5: affe71dda699790535ebb96aa1d90a12 SHA-1: d3ab8c2fba988d66a3d52df7621d5b15a91fb86b SHA-256: f19434110e121354718d8c3f50366c633ff074614b079172d575f15b8c2bfede
182 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 decoded Equation Editor payload, strongly indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. The ".objupdate" directive forces OLE activation, triggering the exploit. The extracted artifact is a PE file, suggesting the exploit's purpose is to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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_off0000005c.bin
0b70b54b4ee763883e5fd783d095ef4dab9183a6652a19a468d909a102e37690
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5C 310258 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.