Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28afe7923ff1fefa…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

217.6 KB
MD5: 6d363778561b5d65e02b5d85ac8bb455 SHA-1: 18fb5a24d29bd3cd371f6f1aab72c4bd3cd28f59 SHA-256: 28afe7923ff1fefa3b52146e319bf89c2028865d826047df505905fb4eb758d8
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.005 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

The RTF document contains embedded OLE objects and uses an objupdate directive to force activation, indicating an attempt to execute embedded content. The document body explicitly instructs the user to 'download the document and click Enable Editing', a social engineering lure to bypass macro security. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded OLE objects and the lure suggest the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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_off0000095b.bin
d9625eec7efa7f93b590918837b66b20ceb937396d337cdf7e4efd300525c3b6
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x95B 15562 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off00008869.bin
893d8db8585190a273d0c7c3dcff2eb58184b866a3687a9319ca72a8284876cb
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x8869 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009e0c.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9E0C 12297 bytes