Malicious RTF / .DOC — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bbf54f3fff6e970…

MALICIOUS

RTF / .DOC

217.6 KB First seen: 2022-04-29
MD5: 94a6462ba19ea26fe5c070b53bceeedf SHA-1: b66a23ee5d333ab6b1aa69c8e46add29b3ad1f1f SHA-256: 4bbf54f3fff6e970356086e462e4c9bfe9784bcc26f183c74881250f5354ce3c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF document contains multiple embedded OLE objects, with specific heuristics indicating the use of \objdata and \objupdate, strongly suggesting an attempt to exploit OLE object activation. One of the extracted artifacts, objdata_00_off000007d2.bin, is flagged as suspicious due to script execution terms. This indicates the document is likely designed to deliver and execute a malicious payload via OLE object vulnerabilities.

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_off000007d2.bin
057154222edb7c775c1bbd1b7e22f83eac1b39d7ed48c3d1db83c173ae2dd55b
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7D2 15751 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 shell/COM execution token(s).
objdata_01_off0000886a.bin
69f64299837b9bdce8c52fe4f05181569f28511801c1b3d711966300926e8171
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x886A 2632 bytes
objdata_02_off00009e0d.bin
44deae4627fee3c44f54d5bd10477ec2e17f4c08135f08e2417832e36d10d037
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x9E0D 12297 bytes