Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d0f4b56524f0e8a…

MALICIOUS

RTF

813.4 KB Created: 2019-01-22 14:09:00 Authoring application: LibreOffice/7.0.1.2$Linux_X86_64 LibreOffice_project/7cbcfc562f6eb6708b5ff7d7397325de9e764452
MD5: 03d11e6b979a69b7ebda725436ab236e SHA-1: 98ff07105b6e3972f79d9ad872730a2a7da1063d SHA-256: 1d0f4b56524f0e8aa3813ae9f2cdbf5a272167e28f11c3822c95d415347e5ba1
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains multiple high-severity heuristics indicating the presence and automatic activation of OLE objects, including composite monikers. These findings suggest the file is designed to exploit OLE vulnerabilities to execute embedded code. While the document body appears to be legitimate product information, the technical indicators point towards a malicious exploitation of the RTF format's object handling capabilities.

Heuristics 5

  • Composite Moniker in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_COMPOSITE_MONIKER_RELATED
    RTF contains Composite Moniker CLSID in OLE object context, but no nearby scriptlet/SCT payload was confirmed. Treat as related moniker attack-surface evidence rather than proof of CVE-2017-8570 exploitation.
  • 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 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
  • Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMB
    RTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000818cb.bin
2af49d5cc6d298b6cc58f7d980beabf17d063d3f2e82090222f8d9e349856544
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x818CB 54253 bytes
objdata_01_off0009d1f7.bin
49e917656a608562bf2acf07b354dae0fb27b709ba3b6670bb4fd05296862492
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9D1F7 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off0009e79a.bin
e8d4fe950caed6dcfde26f4b616825bbe11b93458425974b7d075167f675abf7
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9E79A 12297 bytes