Malicious RTF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79293f3cfa2af27b…

MALICIOUS

RTF

1.26 MB Created: 2016-03-27 18:31:00 First seen: 2016-04-01
MD5: f5c81526acbd830da2f533ae93deb1e1 SHA-1: f7d9e0c7714578eb29716c1d2f49ef0defbf112a SHA-256: 79293f3cfa2af27b9d5d2d7afa1d3febb8a02f7480491b0a8afb6eea0d10faab
304 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The RTF file contains embedded OLE objects with large amounts of hex-encoded data, indicative of a hidden payload. It also uses an INCLUDETEXT/INCLUDEPICTURE directive to fetch content from a remote URL, which is a common technique for downloading secondary exploits or malware. ClamAV detections confirm the presence of an exploit targeting CVE-2015-1641, a known vulnerability in Microsoft Office.

Heuristics 9

  • Composite Moniker in RTF OLE object high CVE related RTF_COMPOSITE_MONIKER_RELATED
    RTF contains Composite Moniker CLSID in OLE object context, but no nearby scriptlet/SCT payload was confirmed. Treat as related moniker attack-surface evidence rather than proof of CVE-2017-8570 exploitation.
  • ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2015_1641-6397417-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2015_1641-6397417-0
  • Large hex data blocks in OLE object high RTF_EXCESSIVE_HEX
    RTF contains ~1203KB of hex-encoded data inside \objdata sections — may hide a payload
  • 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://www.aims.net.pk/facilities/welfare2/news In RTF body
    • http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordmlIn RTF body

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off0000f13f.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0xF13F 6372 bytes
SHA-256: 365bc96aa9bd390a6f5cab1f799a12c67405386f30fcdb30ea4ddc2c73da875a
objdata_01_off00012cc3.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x12CC3 589873 bytes
SHA-256: 01d0e7ff68edf78e6d8472e531dc7088bfa2ce131733dcee03efa69c1c482bb4
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact entropy is 7.98, consistent with packed or encrypted content.
objdata_02_off00135665.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x135665 16433 bytes
SHA-256: ac8397211c1cd7886d49ccd99d0163edaa3711f18fc40ff269159d175e9e4c47
Detection
ClamAV: Doc.Exploit.CVE_2015_1641-6397417-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely