Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0 — RTF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 830fc1a773c9fa81…

MALICIOUS

RTF

323.2 KB Authoring application: Riched20 10.0.17134 First seen: 2019-08-04
MD5: efd8dbc78339f2bbfa99b4854708aaa2 SHA-1: c2e51b2b9c46949d084a2343f8ae5e044fe8245b SHA-256: 830fc1a773c9fa81f37f9108395ce43bfefe5df8ab72fa42075186bb2a5af42f
260 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0 · confidence 90%

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

The RTF file contains multiple embedded OLE objects, with heuristics indicating the use of ".objupdate" and Composite Monikers, suggesting an attempt to exploit OLE object activation. ClamAV detections identify the embedded content as 'Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0', a known malicious variant. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the embedded OLE object serving as the exploit mechanism.

Heuristics 6

  • 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: Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0
  • \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 5 \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.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
objdata_00_off00000113.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x113 32160 bytes
SHA-256: 4ee56b19d8f3a1f83f675a890de4a29cb6d870bcde1f70a68a962d73fb8f5a1a
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
objdata_01_off0001037c.bin rtf-objdata-decoded RTF \objdata at offset 0x1037C 32160 bytes
SHA-256: e56af8a43b6af7a827681983fac8ce3a2e3c2458badf12ceb6b4bdb524ff5c26
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Malware.Sload-7135989-0
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely