Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff5e2ff3dbd4c0d5…

MALICIOUS

RTF

49.1 KB First seen: 2019-05-16
MD5: e8865a8922ff45c5fb62333a4c70a457 SHA-1: 56aa24a4bb668e0cf182e65da2c5ccf2ea0da3ee SHA-256: ff5e2ff3dbd4c0d5c16f6add52d57a6526552dc5d8dc83646058a4e4d60fd040
220 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains an embedded OLE object that triggers the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, which is typically used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name further confirms the exploit's presence.

Heuristics 5

  • CVE-2017-11882 — Equation Editor FONT record overflow critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882
    Equation Editor MTEF contains an overlong FONT typeface field, the vulnerable copy primitive for CVE-2017-11882. This is stronger evidence than the Equation Editor CLSID alone because it identifies the malformed record that drives code execution in EQNEDT32.EXE.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2017_11882-6934206-0
  • Automatically linked OLE object high RTF_OBJAUTLINK
    RTF contains \objautlink — an automatically linked OLE object surface that can be updated or activated when Word opens the document.
  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001fb7.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1FB7 4650 bytes
SHA-256: 355b4702b7253effdb8439b12a3b356b3ba3966e76482cb7a65bec25f95c9670