Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f43a55b936574aa7…

MALICIOUS

RTF

240.9 KB First seen: 2019-03-10
MD5: d3954352d94ce99f826cb54d76792694 SHA-1: 77066abf441da34ff2457c5f01a41f3463022369 SHA-256: f43a55b936574aa73bc882c6e619176bdef29b7c0ae652591f7a96c55410cad4
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object that exploits a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor (CVE-2017-11882). The document also contains a lure to 'ENABLE EDITING', indicating it's designed to trick users into activating the exploit. The ClamAV detection signature confirms the exploit's nature.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000062.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x62 76349 bytes
SHA-256: 06cb939ba0d2b066c066ff56d53dbd2819749fd053a8cf3797cf81833833772b