Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61f8b6fb5b364159…

MALICIOUS

RTF

661.7 KB First seen: 2015-09-30
MD5: aa794c7eb8b04dcb53b3dab5746a4730 SHA-1: 2fb8d7fb52891299e4f71756e9f1d29db13eb364 SHA-256: 61f8b6fb5b364159f678df45c76cd03efbb00caad15285334f85c99ae727d2fd
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is an RTF file that contains embedded OLE objects and triggers a high-severity heuristic for CVE-2012-0158, indicating exploitation of a client execution vulnerability. It also includes a remote URL that is likely used to download a secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual clues.

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://37.139.47.211/webstat/img.php?id=77889433 In RTF body

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000dd.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xDD 129472 bytes
SHA-256: 14badcd6294775c8d70772792cbcab0e821e4d2eb93c63eb517029cde4fc9f1e
objdata_01_off00040f9c.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x40F9C 4337 bytes
SHA-256: c8283cf0e0568af41d4d00735fe84d00ea96b37abbca7a5fd42640dc03962be4
objdata_02_off000433e4.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x433E4 167010 bytes
SHA-256: ddb6c57f42e1fa281c95d11a7fcc8a0348a683c17ad650c4dc6c39ec002b1492
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.56, consistent with packed or encrypted content.