Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2351c7c8a183c7f0…

MALICIOUS

RTF

217.4 KB First seen: 2022-04-14
MD5: 3d77429f066efd067a7cda6019ced188 SHA-1: f619a46dc55f73160c868059d690ac4336d53b78 SHA-256: 2351c7c8a183c7f0f6d9514d206e3d9e3423193011c47e9fabe07b70c604027e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF file contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of \objdata and \objupdate to force OLE activation. This suggests the file is designed to exploit vulnerabilities related to OLE object handling, likely to execute embedded malicious code. The extracted artifacts are named based on their offset within the RTF structure.

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.
  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000007d2.bin
1deb20ecb72717e0f83e55cdc4ff7c462564ad102fa60f28d0eb267c56e7db3d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D2 15670 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off000087c2.bin
36dcadcd9dba6c796320cf103eee4d99a0cf65218f74bac40d0f472a6487a1f8
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x87C2 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009d65.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9D65 12297 bytes