Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bb4bc099c4b6b19…

MALICIOUS

RTF

472.2 KB First seen: 2023-08-08
MD5: 2b6079d76ec19f9ac5281bf5160acbdc SHA-1: 8995ebd67c97bdbd37c1d1424c41d0a5b103626e SHA-256: 6bb4bc099c4b6b193358631ba4a2bfc728c565297e395ab72274a226174cb7f7
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The RTF file contains embedded OLE object data, indicated by the RTF_OBJDATA heuristic. The RTF_OBJUPDATE heuristic suggests that this embedded object is intended to be activated, which is a common technique for delivering malicious payloads. The specific nature of the payload is not clear from the provided evidence, but the overall pattern points to a malicious document designed to exploit OLE object activation.

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_off000011fa.bin
9c1d7a6b587971ec8d50bd1cabd0623457290217180b8e5f838d289d67fb8438
rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x11FA 4176 bytes