Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cc99f82a930d201…

MALICIOUS

RTF

360.7 KB First seen: 2022-12-01
MD5: 3084a4fb8c2595384db28901a8ee04a6 SHA-1: 8fb63f085c8957cb14e7d7a8eedd4e3de73791e8 SHA-256: 5cc99f82a930d201db25cc1112375336a597592f64d3872c1dd614abd4b65d39
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 configured to activate automatically upon opening the document. This mechanism is commonly used to deliver and execute malicious payloads, although no specific payload or family could be identified from 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_off0000050e.bin
129dfe28416eb001710b88cbd02f89d37be0ccc12d23f50529b7b76d24e59e93
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x50E 1632 bytes