Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35aa094ef5e31708…

MALICIOUS

RTF

706.0 KB First seen: 2024-07-17
MD5: e04274edaef1c789f6748fd0b16b1d44 SHA-1: 2bd27c050da6e0741192748554bb4f5f3f7afa34 SHA-256: 35aa094ef5e31708b49d5128ab5a7c05bdc71af43dd605f9140d71c396528929
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and heuristics indicate that \objupdate forces OLE activation, suggesting the execution of a malicious object. The document body provides a lure, instructing the user to 'click Enable editing from the yellow bar above', a common technique to bypass macro security settings and execute embedded content.

Heuristics 4

  • \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
  • 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00040d48.bin
2925d1857f97512bf77b002242d88c446d56b2ccc8b576dedff929554241ca67
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x40D48 2094 bytes