Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4967b9926e48dbfc…

MALICIOUS

RTF

411.6 KB First seen: 2015-05-29
MD5: cdf10c30d465b956a09d8e8cd61b1591 SHA-1: 381f706596b67efcb0d32f7ba04e9ced8724fe6b SHA-256: 4967b9926e48dbfcf9e293abdfe546bb4c2eae750831441ad30c3194178fe84f
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data and triggers a high-severity heuristic for CVE-2012-0158, indicating exploitation of a known vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.ListView. It also includes a remote URL that is likely used to download and execute a secondary payload, suggesting a downloader or exploit dropper.

Heuristics 7

  • MSCOMCTL.ListView — CVE-2012-0158 high CVE related CVE_2012_0158
    RTF \objdata decodes to OLE data containing the MSCOMCTL.ListView — CVE-2012-0158 CLSID — the vulnerable control/moniker is embedded directly in the document's object stream, the delivery shape of this exploit. RTF objects auto-render when Word opens the file.
  • INCLUDETEXT/INCLUDEPICTURE remote URL high RTF_INCLUDE_REMOTE
    RTF document uses INCLUDETEXT or INCLUDEPICTURE with an http:// URL — Word can fetch the remote content on open depending on Office version and external-content settings, enabling remote template injection, NTLM capture via redirects, or payload delivery
  • 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
  • OlePres presentation stream in RTF OLE object medium RTF_OLEPRES_STREAM
    RTF contains an embedded OLE object with an OlePres presentation stream. OlePres is an OLE presentation marker and is not enough on its own to identify CVE-2025-21298.
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://108.61.188.242/mwistat1/image.php?id=77680619 In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000a8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xA8 5912 bytes
SHA-256: 45179fe5196e53051712a585a25fbd19b9c46c65671a48388f47fb08bc73d07b
objdata_01_off00003126.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x3126 4364 bytes
SHA-256: fbc6e2e1e3ec33c10d946aa3929d96c742e39258309448fe73516b65ada68ce8
objdata_02_off00005530.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x5530 167010 bytes
SHA-256: 465bbc96e390d8c8f338308d18bf7854647807d122494b42995922c0a05043f8
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.54, consistent with packed or encrypted content.