Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 250f31c1794ffd85…

MALICIOUS

RTF

3.0 KB First seen: 2023-07-06
MD5: 8e57f86bfc01765be16f25d4cc92793e SHA-1: 1e55d68943716644217bcbe08507a5836fa0bc18 SHA-256: 250f31c1794ffd8511b85fc183fff5a1a15809498bfaae679d9fc7eddcda126a
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains OLE object data and uses an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability to activate embedded objects. This is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads. No specific family could be identified from the available evidence.

Heuristics 2

  • \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_off00000086.bin
e3985efa6660a9b4641b7f3e1b12976169718f6b38f4381828d0e052b333b1e6
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x86 1423 bytes