Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 456567deecc601d3…

MALICIOUS

RTF

3.5 KB First seen: 2023-10-09
MD5: 740be721c384ccfa9a4d9fc14ef23426 SHA-1: cbc7911b3d72cc9d984965e079614f89c49826a3 SHA-256: 456567deecc601d37c59bb613e5a9d83f661335fc853ce2ecd33fc21b358c999
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and uses an \objupdate directive, indicating an attempt to exploit OLE activation vulnerabilities. This is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads disguised as standard documents. No specific family could be identified from the available heuristics.

Heuristics 2

  • \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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000092.bin
0ee8dce5b64da0d796b35f1e68ae53696f6e3207870c973a1dce9e2d9b950d1f
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x92 1655 bytes