Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb801d92deb2d8f2…

MALICIOUS

RTF

362.3 KB
MD5: a9bc939e2a01a46f0dfde9ecf623e3bf SHA-1: 93d7b5638eac3c57901778adce24857effc74512 SHA-256: fb801d92deb2d8f21d2f12a825e2080613d0829ac3f3178fdea1da9a137b7c28
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is an RTF document containing an embedded OLE object, specifically targeting the Equation Editor vulnerability (RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR). The ".objupdate" directive indicates that the embedded object is designed to be activated automatically upon opening, leading to code execution. This is a common delivery mechanism for malware that aims to download and execute further stages.

Heuristics 5

  • Equation Editor CLSID critical RTF_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Equation Editor OLE CLSID found inside an OLE object — exploited by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 / CVE-2018-0798
  • \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
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
  • 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_off000013a8.bin
066760f9159e84b35c3458a40d1ec8301b737dddd2d879a388a032a3e1d7de6a
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x13A8 104010 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.96, consistent with packed or encrypted content.