Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a726c462cbfcf07…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

344.9 KB
MD5: ce435eb28ec2e05ebb4b86bf411076b1 SHA-1: e24149b3d551cb20873b2e2a2ff4a832422bbf49 SHA-256: 4a726c462cbfcf07afad3a19e4248441df9198a5e270ac468db93af751d48c4f
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1559.001 Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model T1204.002 Malicious File

The RTF document contains multiple OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and Composite Monikers, strongly suggesting an attempt to trigger OLE activation and execute embedded code. One of the extracted artifacts, objdata_00_off000007ce.bin, is flagged as suspicious due to script execution terms. The attack pattern involves leveraging these OLE object vulnerabilities to achieve arbitrary code execution.

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_off000007ce.bin
03fb3cd76340ba3ead5d238794caa46f1244d8ac7ce7c2e87c78ac7ec3d6ef77
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7CE 78433 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off000285af.bin
ad7bf1923f855fca5949d0c557a2a819b106cd84b204870bcc59064eb0c6e331
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x285AF 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00029b52.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x29B52 12297 bytes