Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52771eb24bbd45e8…

MALICIOUS

RTF

3.8 KB First seen: 2022-10-06
MD5: e6c8a453f913b4696b32fe528c3013f6 SHA-1: 81a7c036f25ca1bf257f39a986f0f05231bb7fef SHA-256: 52771eb24bbd45e8b8729d219ade7c0224c17cbd6111aa5c53f94595b3674377
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains an embedded OLE object, indicated by the RTF_OBJDATA heuristic. The RTF_OBJUPDATE heuristic suggests that this object is designed to be automatically activated, likely exploiting a vulnerability in the host application to execute arbitrary code. The specific exploit or payload is not detailed in the provided evidence.

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_off0000007c.bin
551fe9b763160459b21dd54c3883cc0092b69c5e791cdf71a7181d67d381d10d
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x7C 1856 bytes