Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4300c64beda23a5d…

MALICIOUS

RTF

456.7 KB First seen: 2020-09-15
MD5: 9a72ef3c69e3de2cea45226637a94912 SHA-1: f506271bb419c1742bcc5f9a77593210cf236c88 SHA-256: 4300c64beda23a5d2e66a6ef3428814fcb9a93686555f80acdd55e7d6454dd8c
62 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains OLE object data and uses \objupdate to force OLE activation, indicating an attempt to exploit a vulnerability. A suspicious artifact, objdata_00_off00001591.bin, was extracted. The high heuristic score for \objupdate suggests a high likelihood of code execution.

Heuristics 3

  • \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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00001591.bin
7cdc02306f427e4579704b5b6373e99400198f6ef3b95f6b377c82dc148f06d3
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1591 231058 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 8.00, consistent with packed or encrypted content.