MALICIOUS
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
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Composite Moniker in RTF OLE object high RTF_COMPOSITE_MONIKER_RELATEDRTF 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.
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\objupdate forces OLE activation high RTF_OBJUPDATERTF contains \objupdate — forces automatic OLE object instantiation when the document is opened, bypassing user interaction. Almost exclusively seen in Equation Editor exploit documents.
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OLE object data medium RTF_OBJDATARTF contains 3 \objdata section(s) — embedded OLE objects
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Embedded OLE object medium RTF_OBJEMBRTF contains \objemb — embedded OLE object
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Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LUREDocument instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
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Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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objdata_00_off0000095b.bind9625eec7efa7f93b590918837b66b20ceb937396d337cdf7e4efd300525c3b6 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x95B | 15562 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
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objdata_01_off00008869.bin893d8db8585190a273d0c7c3dcff2eb58184b866a3687a9319ca72a8284876cb |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x8869 | 2632 bytes |
objdata_02_off00009e0c.bin44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037 |
rtf-objdata-decoded | RTF \objdata at offset 0x9E0C | 12297 bytes |
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