Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b8705f2ae3b4f7…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

386.4 KB
MD5: 28a0aee786a3b78f6da47d56aaafe887 SHA-1: cef8566b3bf7a2df13a3f26672e772a8da96c05d SHA-256: 42b8705f2ae3b4f760192f99f0f6141ab7c6922680e491484e1daa8d6df5671f
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 content. The presence of these OLE object-related heuristics strongly points towards an exploit delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted, and the document body contained only formatting information, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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_off000007d1.bin
8735767441c65b14499e4c81160aac5653b9c7c2a0cc80a894e27c9471cd29bd
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D1 98861 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off00032bac.bin
7a8598fff434e2b582d3d87e32bb1d356d28f288618d4b03cf39e56767823039
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x32BAC 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off0003414f.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3414F 12297 bytes