Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76519602483fa390…

MALICIOUS

RTF

991.7 KB First seen: 2015-09-23
MD5: 6b11a4ed06afa5dcc8e439006a854000 SHA-1: c48e30dd44ec4d5e42440ce0d8d0c83d5afc6289 SHA-256: 76519602483fa3906168976d88b854616f5dde2ff3e703ead4905194b00c2f37
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains multiple OLE object data sections, with high confidence heuristics indicating the presence of embedded OLE objects and excessive hex data. Specifically, the CVE-2012-0158 heuristic firing strongly suggests exploitation of a vulnerability related to MSCOMCTL.ListView, which allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded artifacts are likely payloads or exploit components.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~1007KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off000000f8.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xF8 294432 bytes
SHA-256: 6e526ff2f499a6ad7f3e33397bf9bc2e73beb6106681e58bd264832a7d2bba42
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.62, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
objdata_01_off000937e4.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x937E4 4337 bytes
SHA-256: fcdda0a224c7db1f379caa7ee4876e7d3dff2760be48304d0bcd4546a41cbc6d
objdata_02_off00095c29.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x95C29 164853 bytes
SHA-256: 17dc60a65fa88635c2776bc340bbf50c20384fd461de5e5a747b220d867916a4
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.69, consistent with packed or encrypted content.