Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d4b731600a4f61e…

MALICIOUS

RTF

241.6 KB First seen: 2022-04-04
MD5: 6c1eade8c98fe8aff319942f3fc60f47 SHA-1: 2470662f43a0d8217fb19c2650023fbe5a1b117f SHA-256: 2d4b731600a4f61e1e855908f1908af7338646d4a66925ef08b802f5d3b19fb8
123 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains multiple embedded OLE objects, with heuristics indicating that \objupdate forces OLE activation and the presence of a Composite Moniker. This suggests the file is designed to exploit OLE object vulnerabilities to execute malicious code upon opening. No scripts were extracted, and the document body contained only formatting information, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Heuristics 4

  • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000007d0.bin
5d7e6d33972061c8a2d3d58ab0650d20e3c12c3216f82c49dae6ad3a7433de13
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D0 27549 bytes
objdata_01_off0000e844.bin
1721aab459b68b884f13b5caf8aed48f2f1a5eb3d65c1b2ddac08c7c93062de4
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xE844 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off0000fde7.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xFDE7 12297 bytes