Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ba5487668103c62…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

308.5 KB
MD5: 24b278ba3af768022928d579bca68329 SHA-1: 5d94eda6ec2a54b8013416cad6e7f738af82925f SHA-256: 2ba5487668103c62614cfb4288d1c26a8d5172352b3b34363618c8c91c810818
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and Composite Monikers, suggesting an attempt to trigger OLE activation and execute embedded code. One of the extracted artifacts, objdata_00_off000007ce.bin, is flagged as a suspicious extracted artifact with signals related to script execution. The attack pattern likely involves exploiting these OLE features to deliver a malicious payload.

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_off000007ce.bin
c7e3eb966958d9eb6b40e95965045b4708296a978f60c20f6c42f5424856e3a9
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7CE 60520 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off0001f425.bin
ad7bf1923f855fca5949d0c557a2a819b106cd84b204870bcc59064eb0c6e331
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1F425 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off000209c8.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x209C8 12297 bytes