Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa602ce596bb86bc…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

326.2 KB
MD5: 34acce99722ffa513ff22bcdc90bb7fb SHA-1: 81c5d14eaf45e40d4cbf4810ef0d94009ff1c964 SHA-256: fa602ce596bb86bc4f3e3b92d9f0165a81d2a5878b9837a97915c10af0d9abeb
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object with decoded Equation Editor payload, indicating exploitation of CVE-2017-11882. The `RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR` heuristic confirms the presence of a PE file within the decoded object. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely downloading a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • 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_off00000042.bin
2035c4433b28440c4d87fa36e46e9f9b52ccc3ebed39759ad3b2b9a3b107d33a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x42 166874 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.